From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: try_to_swap_out() deactivating pages w. count > 2
Date: 21 Apr 2001 10:42:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bsgr1$hcd$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104211741020.346-100000@mikeg.weiden.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104211336390.1685-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104211336390.1685-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
>
>What I _am_ worried about is the fact that we do this to pages with
>a really high page age. These things are in active use and cannot
>be swapped out any time soon, yet we do claim swap space for it ...
Ehh... And if we didn't do that, then how could they every become less
active?
We should _absolutely_ do the swap space reclaiming without looking at
the page count. If we don't, you will never free those pages, and I have
a trivial exploit for you that will basically mlock all pages in memory.
try_to_swap_out() _absolutely_ does the right thing. Also note how it
will need to allocate the swap space backing store only once.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-21 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-21 15:48 Mike Galbraith
2001-04-21 16:08 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-04-21 16:42 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-21 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-04-21 17:48 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] <200104211742.KAA17813@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-04-21 17:51 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-21 17:55 ` Rik van Riel
2001-04-21 18:03 ` Linus Torvalds
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