Subject: Re: pmap_is_referenced() -- not used?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/24/2001 22:22:00
| > i think you should be careful about not protecting it. by placing
| > a page that has possible active mappings on the inactive queue you are
| > violating one of the assumptions that i wrote the rest of the code with
| > and it could cause trouble later....
|
| Yah, I'm making a sweep through the code. You just have to be careful
| dealing with the PG_CLEAN bit. Looks like the only place that really
| needs help is uvm_mk_pcluster(). And it looks like it might not even
| be *THAT* bad.
It seems like these assumptions, regardless of whether they are changed,
should be documented in section 9.
--jhawk