Re: Andres Freund
> > > Why do we try to force the pages to be allocated at all? This is just
> > > a monitoring function, it should not change the actual system state.
>
> The problem is that the kernel function just gives bogus results for pages
> that *are* present in memory but that have only touched in another process
> that has mapped the same range of memory.
Ok, so we leave the touching in, but still defend against negative
status values?
Christoph
