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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page-flags.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/page-flags.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 77de28bfefb0..acf7988fd640 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ * page_waitqueue(page) is a wait queue of all tasks waiting for the page * to become unlocked. * + * PG_swapbacked is set when a page uses swap as a backing storage. This are + * usually PageAnon or shmem pages but please note that even anonymous pages + * might lose their PG_swapbacked flag when they simply can be dropped (e.g. as + * a result of MADV_FREE). + * * PG_uptodate tells whether the page's contents is valid. When a read * completes, the page becomes uptodate, unless a disk I/O error happened. * |