On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Richard Jerrell wrote:
> 2.4.1 has a memory leak (temporary) where anonymous memory pages
> that have been moved into the swap cache will stick around after
> their vma has been unmapped by the owning process.
> free_pte in mm/memory.c has been modified to check to see if the
> page is only being referenced by the swap cache
Your idea is nice, but the patch lacks a few things:
- SMP locking, what if some other process faults in this page
between the atomic_read of the page count and the test later?
- testing if our process is the _only_ user of this swap page,
for eg. apache you'll have lots of COW-shared pages .. it would
be good to keep the page in memory for our siblings
regards,
Rik
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