== Kelley Nielsen ==
Email: [[MailTo(kelleynnn AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com)]]
I am a kernel intern through the Gnome Outreach Program for Women. RikvanRiel is my mentor. My project is to rid the swapoff code of the quadratic complexity in try_to_unuse().
This page will eventually become a proper home page, but until I learn enough about wiki editing to write proper articles, I will be using this as a scratch area for my thoughts, questions, and article stubs and drafts.
=== My Current Working State ===
Rik has asked me, "can you find out, and describe to me, how the location of a
certain place in swap is stored in the memory management data
structures for a process?
and what the two parts of the swap information describe?
ACTION: study struct page and friends in include/linux/mm_types.h
ACTION: study handle_mm_fault() found at:
memory.c:3783:int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
QUESTION: What are the memory management data structures for a process?
-what’s the data structure for a process, where does it live, and what are its members?
(assumed that some of the members are mm structs)
QUESTION: what is (are) the top level struct(s) for memory management? What besides processes hold them?
Partial answer: struct page is one => seen in (prob) Mauerer’s book*--where?
QUESTION: How is a swap area location described?
*["http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Kernel-Architecture-Wolfgang-Mauerer/dp/0470343435"]
