From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pippin.tausq.org (gandalf.tausq.org [64.81.244.94]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0082C4829 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:06:43 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:03:22 -0800 From: Randolph Chung To: bruno_vidal@hp.com Cc: "parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org" Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] struct page: page in use or not ? Message-ID: <20030319170322.GI26139@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung References: <3E789FE6.C9BB53CD@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3E789FE6.C9BB53CD@hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: > I'm currently trying to reduce the dump time, and then I try to dump only > pages that are currently use by the system. In page structure I found a flag, > I was thinking a good one for this purpose: > atomic_t count; /* Usage count, see below. */ Bruno, isn't this handled in the generic dump code? I haven't looked at this for a while, but I thought the generic dump code lets you configure whether to dump all kernel pages, all kernel+user referened pages or all pages whether referenced or not... randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/