Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add replace_page(), change the mapping of pte fromone page into another

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Izik Eidus wrote:

> yes but it replace it with kernel allocated page.
> > page migration already kinda does that.  Is there common ground?
> >
> >
> page migration as far as i saw cant migrate anonymous page into kernel page.
> if you want we can change page_migration to do that, but i thought you will
> rather have ksm changes separate.

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.
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