Re: [PATCH]Fix: Init page count for all pages during higher order allocs

From: Hugh Dickins (hugh@veritas.com)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 08:46:34 EST


On Fri, 3 May 2002, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> For example we have an option that tries to exclude non-kernel
> pages from the dump based on a simple heuristic of checking the
> PG_lru flag (actually exclude LRU pages and unreferenced pages).

I hadn't thought of using PG_lru (last thought about it before
anonymous pages were put on the LRU in 2.4.14): good idea,
seems much more appealing than my extra flag for GFP_HIGHUSER.

Hugh

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