Re: anonymous pages

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"An anonymous page is a page that is not associated with a particular
vnode, or file/directory." (this I extracted from
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/multiproc/multiproc.html)
Ie, page->mapping is NULL - someone can confirm this?

And without this address space pointer, there is no swap device to
swap out, correct?   Other than that, what are all the other
implications of page->mapping being NULL?

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:13 PM, shyam Burkule <shyam.burkule@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> what do we exactly mean by anonymous page ?
> Why special treatment is give for user process address space pages and
> anonymous pages , in case of reclamation?
>
> --
> Shyam
>   "Born To Learn"



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