Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

Jeff Dike
2002-03-06T14:26:00Z

dwmw2@infradead.org said:
> Does UML somehow give pages back to the host when
> they're freed, so the pages that are no longer used by UML can be
> discarded by the host instead of getting swapped?

No, but it could. Given another hook (in free_pages this time) I could unmap
pages as they're freed, allowing them to be discarded on the host.

Jeff