Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: tracking shared dirty pages

Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> writes:

> From: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> 
> People expressed the need to track dirty pages in shared mappings.

Why only shared mappings? Anonymous pages can be dirty too
and would need to be written to swap then before making progress.

-Andi
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