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Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:14:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks" X-Google-Original-From: "Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks" X-Mailer: exmh version 2.9.0 11/07/2018 with nmh-1.7+dev To: Anupam Kapoor Subject: Re: transfer physical memory page to swap disk In-Reply-To: References: <412530.1579360214@turing-police> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 06:14:12 -0500 Message-ID: <494631.1579432452@turing-police> Cc: Sumit Kumar , kernelnewbies X-BeenThere: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Learn about the Linux kernel List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4424921526915132538==" Errors-To: kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org --===============4424921526915132538== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1579432452_400155P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --==_Exmh_1579432452_400155P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:55:44 +0000, Anupam Kapoor said: > but if _all_ that is required is randomly unmapping some marked > application pages, _that_ can be naively 'done' by the application > itself :) Note that in this case, "naively" includes "not remembering to consider that the page being unmapped may have contained data we'd rather have kept by flushing the page to disk" :) --==_Exmh_1579432452_400155P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Exmh version 2.9.0 11/07/2018 iQIVAwUBXiQ6BAdmEQWDXROgAQKrmxAAtztRB9x6+eNIygj+bil1wa8YBuDM5zn8 2FUxUTRQH75Fq+I5c29MObQNYR+cAc3K4mpgnjkO9+twHx2N3t0V3uLEJOAIXhOf ekM7bdabIDLg7L6+M/9DaATePE2p4YrVcvVjLnegLnmAnstjfjZlzxUvaoA8HzgC RHwtf3O2ZtTagspE6GKAei5OgkhcROUz/NzyU4SeEMuWD4sDeQieXrNS5ms70mOi VDQfiOwhP7UDzp6kNa97Z5Q3zgASYhRjZXmOssL1QtmFHEZwLHMkLZgrvRtlftbq vc9mc2ug0kvl5SFuwd0iJQOmQqj2QEUwio92/NezUHWRDw87c0mdCSXAKmPy4P3I Wlfy3zcJXi6TASVuf/RlLJrBlU+ShAlJd/qbHcFhCPc19J4TG7mRWrsbQo2eeVKT FEou12nLYEpC3OA+hm+jBvPkunc63vLweTuMC+AiiV2hKPYlSX/y9DC7wk8/dHLy 0+ryScOW/juX2XcWzgObFFKXr+j4E1MXzD48x2sXv15qE4F5k/m++3jDDZd6ohFW utmm3VgRT38RrwhtCor4A8A+vtoZmXRYIIagVlwcQpUeQf9uuBPZKNtF7pUyA1Q5 /d7TZg2zy5roKuv4GH00oFd1EkljRy952Bp8PoZzhMRPZxtUvfD8FyIQUMQlzAo4 FZDohGEaRBU= =PV0e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1579432452_400155P-- --===============4424921526915132538== Content-Type: text/plain; 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