Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266614AbUF3Lct (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:32:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266622AbUF3Lct (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:32:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:25556 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266614AbUF3Lcr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:32:47 -0400 Subject: Re: new memory hotremoval patch From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: IWAMOTO Toshihiro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <20040630111719.EBACF70A92@sv1.valinux.co.jp> References: <20040630111719.EBACF70A92@sv1.valinux.co.jp> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-0v1/FJWE/MWwdP1vqZG+" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1088595151.2706.12.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:32:31 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1057 Lines: 34 --=-0v1/FJWE/MWwdP1vqZG+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Page "remapping" is a mechanism to free a specified page by copying the > page content to a newly allocated replacement page and redirecting > references to the original page to the new page. > This was designed to reliably free specified pages, unlike the swapout > code. are you 100% sure the locking is correct wrt O_DIRECT, AIO or futexes ?? --=-0v1/FJWE/MWwdP1vqZG+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBA4qTPxULwo51rQBIRApJqAJ40LzBUizm4uVJAu+Um8as+ZwdLbgCfSvJR /7dzXywO0tHE+CVP51GwdTg= =USTE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0v1/FJWE/MWwdP1vqZG+-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/