On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 07:41:39PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The pages are populated _before_ the new ldt is installed. So no memory > pressure issue, nothing. If the populate fails, then modify_ldt() returns > with an error.
Also, these pages are not visible to reclaim. They're not pagecache and we didn't install a shrinker.

