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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: ncunningham@cyclades.com,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: PageReserved removal from swsusp
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:29:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E575C6.2010802@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507251332010.13673@goblin.wat.veritas.com>

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>However I'm not sure that I really like the use of
>>flags == 0xffffffff to indicate the page is unusable. For one thing it
>>may confuse things that walk physical pages, and for another it can
>>easily break if someone clears a flag of an 'unusable' page.
> 
> 
> I don't like that either.  Setting all the flags seems to maximize the
> chance of error somewhere.  Perhaps a magic number in one of the other
> struct page fields would work more safely.  Or perhaps just leave it
> as its own flag bit for now, and later go on a separate free-up-some-
> flags exercise.
> 

OK I'll leave it using PageReserved, and we can rethink it later.

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-25 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-25  1:38 Nick Piggin
2005-07-25  4:31 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-07-25  4:52   ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-25  6:22     ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-25  6:59       ` Pavel Machek
2005-07-25 12:39       ` Hugh Dickins
2005-07-25 23:29         ` Nick Piggin [this message]

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