Hi, I have another question concerning the pinning of a process's pages in memory (i.e. preventing them from being swapped out). I noticed there are several ways to pin a page: - Setting the page descriptors PG_reserved flag. - Incrementing the page's usage count (used by map_user_kiobuf()). - Setting the VM_LOCKED flag of the vmarea descriptor the page is in (used by do_mlock()). (1) Are there further methods to pin a process's pages in memory? (2) Are there any reason to use one or the other method, or can they be considered equivalent? regards Martin -- Supercomputing System AG email: maletinsky@scs.ch Martin Maletinsky phone: +41 (0)1 445 16 05 Technoparkstrasse 1 fax: +41 (0)1 445 16 10 CH-8005 Zurich - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
