On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 01:47:10PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:32:53AM +0000, Shivank Garg wrote: > > When MADV_COLLAPSE is called on file-backed mappings (e.g., executable > > text sections), the pages may still be dirty from recent writes. The > > That explanation derails my brain entirely. Text isn't writable! How > can the pages be dirty and file-backed text?
Because they just compiled it and it's not been written back to disk yet :)
