Re: Memory is not becoming available even after freeing it.

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Hi...

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 17:01, Vikash Kumar <vikashskumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That brings another question on when and why "put_page" is used. I can
> guess it has some thing to do with swap memory as it is defined in
> mm/swap.c and my system is an embedded system without any swap memory
> support.

AFAIK, put_page has something to do with page locking...

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