Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 09:43:03 EST

> Since there is always at least one freeable page in the system (or we're oom) then
> we just have to find it and we know we can forcibly unmap it. We do need to know
> the total of pinned pages, I should have said locked/dirty/pinned.

What if I did a 4 page allocation ?

And if we are OOM - we want to return NULL
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