Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:46:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Rik van Riel wrote:

> PG_mlock is on the way and can easily be reused for this, too.

Note that a pinned page is different from an mlocked page. A mlocked page 
can be moved through page migration and/or memory hotplug. A pinned page 
must make both fail.

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