Hi.... On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Dhyan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear mulyadi santosa, > > I think you are mentioning the about PG_dirty flag.But in my case i want to > clear the written flag of the user process from my kernel thread after each > dump.
Oh, sorry then, I misunderstood your goal... > So that next time when kernel thread runs it will dump only the pages > written after last dump. Sounds like what you need could be implemented using a time stamp. Could be named like "last_written" and "last_dump". Both stores jiffies values, consecutively when last time it is written out and last time it is dumped out. And since they are jiffies_t, they probably better attached to "page_t". CMIIW... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
