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PQ_FIXED (was Re: XIP)
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 02:27:33PM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
(snip)
> > > > - as you guessed in your mail, I don't like the new PQ_FIXED flag
> > > > either.
> > > > it looks like it's only used for preventing the XIP pages from
> > > > being put on the paging queues, but that would be better done by
> > > > just initializing pg->wire_count to 1 so that UVM treats them
> > > > as permanently non-pageable (which they actually are).
> > >
> > > Are you OK to prevent XIP pages from being loaned? ;)
> > >
> > > The actual problems here are
> > >
> > > a) the generic fault handler doesn't know how to handle pages that
> > > never be paged out (device pages), and
(snip)
I'll revert the PQ_FIXED part. Full vm_page is allocated for the
time being.
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