On 05/14/2012 04:49 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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. > Fair enough. Thanks. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>