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Re: regarding Swap

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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:03:09PM +0200, Devvrat Tripathi wrote:
> can anyone explain me how exactly is swap activated and what all is done
> during the process. It will be helpful if you can point out the code in the
> source which does the task.

swapon(2) system call, which calls sys_swapon() in mm/swapfile.c


Erik

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