transfer physical memory page to swap disk

Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Sun Jan 19 06:14:12 EST 2020


On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 10:55:44 +0000, Anupam Kapoor said:

> but if _all_ that is required is randomly unmapping some marked
> application pages, _that_ can be naively 'done' by the application
> itself :)

Note that in this case, "naively" includes "not remembering to consider
that the page being unmapped may have contained data we'd rather
have kept by flushing the page to disk" :)
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