Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What is the page is (for example) clean swapcache, having been recently
> > faulted in. If this pte indicates that this process has modified the page
> > and we don't run set_page_dirty(), the page could be reclaimed and the
> > change is lost.
>
> Absolutely. But either the page is unique to this mm, shared only with
> swapcache: in which case we're about to do a free_swap_cache on it (that
> may be delayed in actually freeing the swap because of not getting page
> lock, presumably because vmscan just got to it, but no matter), and we
> don't care at all that the page no longer represents what's on swap disk.
>
> Or, the page is shared with another mm. But it's an anonymous page
> (a private page), so it's shared via fork, and COW applies to it.
mmap(MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_SHARED)
fork()
swapout
swapin
swapoff
Now we have two mm's sharing a clean, non-cowable, non-swapcache anonymous
page, no?
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