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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages 
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:26:44 -0500
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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dwmw2@infradead.org said:
> Does UML somehow give pages back to the host when
> they're  freed, so the pages that are no longer used by UML can be
> discarded by the  host instead of getting swapped?

No, but it could.  Given another hook (in free_pages this time) I could unmap
pages as they're freed, allowing them to be discarded on the host.

				Jeff

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