> > Pages allocated with do_anonymous_page are not added to the active list.
> > as a result there is no aging information for a page until it is
> > unmapped. So we might be unmapping and allocating swap for shared pages
>
> Right ok.
One problem though, we cannot 'see' the referenced bits in the
page tables and nothing else is accessing this page, so there's
no information we can learn from having this page on the active
list.
regards,
Rik
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