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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
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Subject: Re: A question of VM page ownership
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* Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> [020307 08:28] wrote:
> 
> Is there any fundamental reason why a page can not be owned by more than
> one VM object?  If that was the case, the bogus page stuff in vfs_bio.c
> could be made cleaner IMHO.

There is only enough linkage in the vm page to support it being associated
with one object.  see src/sys/vm/vm_page.h

-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]

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