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To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: anonymous buffer pages
From: "Raghu R. Arur" <rra2002@aria.ncl.cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
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 Hi,

  when are anonymous buffer pages created and how are they removed from
the system  in linux 2.4.19 ? In try_to_swap_out() when it encounters a
anonymous buffer page the page is not unmapped from the process. So how is
this page freed to the free-list ?

 Thanks a lot,
Raghu
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