Re: [RFC] Track mlock()ed pages

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Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:


Christoph Lameter wrote:

Add NR_MLOCK

Track mlocked pages via a ZVC

I think it is not quite right. You are tracking the number of ptes
that point to mlocked pages, which can be >= the actual number of pages.


Mlocked pages are not inherited. I would expect sharing to be very rare.

Things like library and application text could easily have a lot of
sharing.

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