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From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: Anupam Kapoor <anupam.kapoor@gmail.com>
Cc: Sumit Kumar <sumit686215@gmail.com>,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: transfer physical memory page to swap disk
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 06:14:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <494631.1579432452@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEXHiZEBpf2KKFQ04wUkQqoW809aSq+2SMfuLfvEkJswzBnGZQ@mail.gmail.com>


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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" :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-19 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15 12:31 transfer physical memory page to swap disk Sumit Kumar
2020-01-15 12:42 ` aleix sanchis ramírez
2020-01-15 12:53 ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-18 15:10   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-01-19 10:01     ` Sumit Kumar
2020-01-19 10:55     ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-19 11:14       ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]
2020-01-19 12:45         ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-19 13:18           ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-01-19 16:01             ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-19 16:59 ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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