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

Alan Cox
2002-03-07T14:29:26Z

> Since there is always at least one freeable page in the system (or we're oom) then
> we just have to find it and we know we can forcibly unmap it. We do need to know
> the total of pinned pages, I should have said locked/dirty/pinned.

What if I did a 4 page allocation ?

And if we are OOM - we want to return NULL