On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Sourav Sen wrote:
> Suppose I want to wire-down( as they call in BSD ) a page
> in memory, how I go about doing that? (I guess by setting the
> PG_locked bit of the flags field in the struct page, I can do
> it, am I right?)
Linux simply uses page->count for this. By using the page->count,
multiple parts of the kernel can pin the same page in memory at
different times and unlock them at different times without any
locking/unlocking conflicts...
page_cache_get(page); <= increases page->count
<your critical stuff here>
page_cache_drop(page); <= removes your extra count
regards,
Rik
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