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Re: [PATCH] Clear dirty bits etc on compound frees



Dans un message du 26 Nov à 12:20, Andrew Morton écrivait :
> hmm.  How did the dirty bit get itself set?

Pages in the cluster are mmaped via the nopage method as decribed in
Linux Device Drivers : http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch13.html#t2
in section "Remapping RAM". When the userspace program writes on a page,
it gets the dirty bit.

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