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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rmap.c: try_to_unmap_file(): VM_LOCKED not respected
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:22:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050614052219.GH3879@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050614051405.42342.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:14:05PM -0700, li nux wrote:
> My application is using remap_file_pages and mlocks
> those pages.
> So in the code of  try_to_unmap_file (see below),
> I should never reach the call to try_to_unmap_cluster,
> because for those pages VM_LOCKED is always set.
> But, under heavy load I am seeing try_to_unmap_cluster
> is getting called. Stack:

Does your app use remap_file_pages() before mlock()?

If so, the VM may be trying to reclaim pages between the call to
remap_file_pages() and the call to mlock().


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-14  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-14  5:14 li nux
2005-06-14  5:22 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2005-06-14  5:48   ` li nux
2005-06-14  6:31     ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-06-14  7:25       ` li nux
2005-06-14 13:51 ` Hugh Dickins

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