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Re: madvise (MADV_FREE)

To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
Subject: Re: madvise (MADV_FREE)
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:49:18 +0100
Cc: lars brinkhoff <lars.brinkhoff@intermec.com>, cel@monkey.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
In-Reply-To: <200003241742.MAA02123@ccure.karaya.com>; from Jeff Dike on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:42:18PM -0500
References: <38DB1772.5665EFA2@intermec.com> <200003241742.MAA02123@ccure.karaya.com>
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

Jeff Dike wrote:
> Maybe on arches where the hardware provides those bits and the kernel uses 
> them, but the i386 kernel doesn't.

The i386 not-user-mode kernel certainly uses the accessed and dirty bits.
What do you think pte_young does?

-- Jamie
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References:
- Re: madvise (MADV_FREE)
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- Re: madvise (MADV_FREE)
  - From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
- Re: madvise (MADV_FREE)
  - From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>

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