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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-09-23 19:03:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-09-23 19:03:21 -0400 |
| commit | 536f8098026bde1368bbfcbcb9682a7637b73df2 (patch) | |
| tree | cf83d2e1afa503b6aeba103b55cd1da0af4e7a4c /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | e86ee6682b649183c11013a98be02f25e9ae399d (diff) | |
| parent | 3fd07d3bf0077dcc0f5a33d2eb1938ea050da8da (diff) | |
Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 82d7024f076..097b3a3c693 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_EXEC 0x00000004 #define VM_SHARED 0x00000008 +/* mprotect() hardcodes VM_MAYREAD >> 4 == VM_READ, and so for r/w/x bits. */ #define VM_MAYREAD 0x00000010 /* limits for mprotect() etc */ #define VM_MAYWRITE 0x00000020 #define VM_MAYEXEC 0x00000040 @@ -350,7 +351,8 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page) * only one copy in memory, at most, normally. * * For the non-reserved pages, page_count(page) denotes a reference count. - * page_count() == 0 means the page is free. + * page_count() == 0 means the page is free. page->lru is then used for + * freelist management in the buddy allocator. * page_count() == 1 means the page is used for exactly one purpose * (e.g. a private data page of one process). * @@ -376,10 +378,8 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page) * attaches, plus 1 if `private' contains something, plus one for * the page cache itself. * - * All pages belonging to an inode are in these doubly linked lists: - * mapping->clean_pages, mapping->dirty_pages and mapping->locked_pages; - * using the page->list list_head. These fields are also used for - * freelist managemet (when page_count()==0). + * Instead of keeping dirty/clean pages in per address-space lists, we instead + * now tag pages as dirty/under writeback in the radix tree. * * There is also a per-mapping radix tree mapping index to the page * in memory if present. The tree is rooted at mapping->root. |