Re: new memory hotremoval patch

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjanv_at_redhat.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    To: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:32:31 +0200

    > Page "remapping" is a mechanism to free a specified page by copying the
    > page content to a newly allocated replacement page and redirecting
    > references to the original page to the new page.
    > This was designed to reliably free specified pages, unlike the swapout
    > code.

    are you 100% sure the locking is correct wrt O_DIRECT, AIO or futexes ??

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