On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Izik Eidus wrote: > > What do you mean by kernel page? The kernel can allocate a page and then > > point a user space pte to it. That is how page migration works. > > > i mean filebacked page (!AnonPage())
ok. > ksm need the pte inside the vma to point from anonymous page into filebacked > page > can migrate.c do it without changes? So change anonymous to filebacked page? Currently page migration assumes that the page will continue to be part of the existing file or anon vma. What you want sounds like assigning a swap pte to an anonymous page? That way a anon page gains membership in a file backed mapping. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
