On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Li Haifeng <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all in kernel. > > The page->_count is the page frame's usage count. When page is > allocated, the page->_cout will be set 1. > > After be allocated from buddy system, the page will be used by > process. get_page and put_page/put_page_testzero will used in pairs. > is it right? > > When the page is reclaimed to buddy system, the page->_count should be > 0. However, Because the initialization of page->_count is 1, > get_page() and put_page() is called in pairs, I coufused how > page->_count will be 0? > > Not sure but I suspect that the page->_count will be 0 whenever the file is deleted.
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