On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Ravi wrote: > > --- Anthony Nicholson <nicholson_anthony@yahoo.com> wrote: > > anyone know how to determine, from a struct page *, which > > process is the owner of the data in that frame? it doesn't > > seem from what i've read that there's any easy way to do > > it. > > If I am not wrong, Rik van Riel wrote the rmap feature > to do what you are trying to do. You might want to look > at mm/rmap.c in the 2.5.x source tree to see how you can > use this feature. > > -Ravi. I dont think Rik's rmap does what is needed. I mean given a page , tell us which process owns the page. what rmap does is that is creates a chain of pte_t for shared pages. This helps us to know all the page table entries of a shared page. Please correct me if i am wrong. this is what i understand from seeing the code. Raghu > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
