Re: matching pages with their owner processes

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Raghu R. Arur wrote:

>  do you know how this works??

For page cache pages, page->mapping points to a struct
address_space, which in turn points to an inode, etc...

For page table pages, page->mapping points to an mm_struct,
which basically is the memory part of a task struct.

cheers,

Rik
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