Arjan van de Ven wrote:
you should since that physical page can be reused, say by a root process, and you'd be majorly screwed
I don't understand what you mean by "reused". The whole point behind pinning the memory is that it stays where it is. It doesn't get moved around and it doesn't get swapped out.
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