Nick Piggin wrote:
> However we still have to visit those to-be-unmapped parts of the page
> table,
> to find the pages and free them. So we still at least need to bring it
> into
> cache for the read... at which point, the store probably isn't a big
> burden.

Why not try to find a place to stash a linklist pointer and link them
all together?  Saves the pulldown pagetable walk altogether.

    J
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