Re: Code that does page outs

[Anthony Nicholson <nicholson_anthony@yahoo.com>]

look at rw_swap_page() in mm/page_io.c. This is the
low-level function which initiates swap in or out. If you
find all calls to this function, you should have it.

anthony

--- Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net> wrote:
> I am looking for possible areas in the kernel code where
> page outs occurs. I have looked at shrink_cache(), and 
> swap_out_pmd() which calls try_to_swap_out(). 
> 
> Are there other areas that i missed out? 
> 
> I am looking at the areas where page outs will occur so
> that
> I can keep track of 
> 
> 1) number of page outs occurred at an arbitrary time.
> 2) what causes the page outs.
> 
> Anticipating a reply...
> 
> Eugene
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