From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com (Kanoj Sarcar) Message-Id: <199908062351.QAA42123@google.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix sys_mount not to free_page(0) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:51:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Aug 6, 99 04:18:50 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: > > > > On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Kanoj Sarcar wrote: > > > > Could you please take this patch into the 2.2 and 2.3 streams? It > > basically prevents sys_mount() from trying to invoke free_page(0). > > Hmm.. > > free_page(0) is actually supposed to work. Doesn't it? > > Linus > Umm, it does ... I was thinking it was happenstance, and not by design. I ran into a panic with some code I am trying to write and ran into this ... maybe I should fix my code ... Is it worthwhile to clean this up, or do other places in the code rely on this behavior of free_page? Kanoj -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/