Re: VM subsystem bug in 2.4.0 ?

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:33:23 +1100 (EST)


On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> Call it 'pinned'... the pinned list would have pages with use
> count = 2 or more. A page gets off the pinned list when its use
> count goes to 1 in put_page.

I don't even want to start thinking about how this would
screw up the (already fragile) page aging balance...

Rik

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