On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 09:45 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 16:37 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > What's the meaning of "locked"? Isn't it pinning? > > It doesn't say, the best inference I can make is that locked means the > effect of mlock() which is defined as: 'to be memory-resident', esp. so > since it then states: 'until unlocked' (or exit/exec). > > So basically the statement: 'locked and memory-resident' is redundant. And alternative interpretation of that statement is that mlock() whould keep pages memory-resident, but also make them memory-resident. IE, it should fault the entire range in before returning the system-call. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href