From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Dynamically allocated pageflags Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:31:29 +0100 References: <200602022111.32930.ncunningham@cyclades.com> In-Reply-To: <200602022111.32930.ncunningham@cyclades.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602021431.30194.ak@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: linux-mm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 02 February 2006 12:11, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This is my latest revision of the dynamically allocated pageflags patch. > > The patch is useful for kernel space applications that sometimes need to flag > pages for some purpose, but don't otherwise need the retain the state. A prime > example is suspend-to-disk, which needs to flag pages as unsaveable, allocated > by suspend-to-disk and the like while it is working, but doesn't need to > retain any of this state between cycles. It looks like total overkill for a simple problem to me. And is there really any other user of this other than swsusp? -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org