Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965201AbVJEPCf (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:02:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965203AbVJEPCf (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:02:35 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27553 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965201AbVJEPCe (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:02:34 -0400 Subject: Re: what is the difference between __free_page() & page_cache_release() From: Arjan van de Ven To: yogeshwar sonawane Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:02:28 +0200 Message-Id: <1128524548.2920.41.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 2.9 (++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 2.8 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 15 On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:27 +0530, yogeshwar sonawane wrote: > hi, > I am writing a driver for 2.6 in which i am locking down some pages > into the physical memory by manually traversing the page tables. After > my work with those pages is finished, i free them using > __free_page(). For some cases it is running fine. But while running > some applications, i got the following error: you forgot to put in a url to your code - 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/