"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" -- Peter Teoh HP: 96809281 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
