Hi all, It's quoted that "When a page is swapped out, Linux uses the correspondingPTE to store enough information to locate the page on disk again".
I'm curious when multiple process has the same PTE which points to the samepage, how can kernel differenciate which page from swap space should be swappedin? For example, there are 3 processes, each of them has a virtual page that is mapped to a phyisical page PAGE_A, that means the same PTE is mapped to same PAGE Process 1 runs out of its timeslice Process 2 get scheduled, PAGE_A was from Process 1, so it should be swapped out Process 3 get scheduled, PAGE_A was from Process 2, so it should be swapped out Process 1 now comes back, when he use PTE to look for its PAGE_A, it will get two PAGE_A, one is from itself, and the other from Process 2 How does kernel handle this situation? Thanks _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
