From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <42F57FCA.9040805@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:28:10 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel , Linux Memory Management , Hugh Dickins , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Benjamin Herrenschmidt List-ID: Hi, I'll be looking to send these off to Andrew after 2.6.14 opens, with the aim of having them merged by 2.6.15 hopefully. It doesn't look like they'll be able to easily free up a page flag for 2 reasons. First, PageReserved will probably be kept around for at least one release. Second, swsusp and some arch code (ioremap) wants to know about struct pages that don't point to valid RAM - currently they use PageReserved, but we'll probably just introduce a PageValidRAM or something when PageReserved goes. I believe this makes memory management cleaner and easier to understand. My other reason behind this is that the lockless pagecache patches needs it for sane page refcounting. If anyone has an issue with the patches or my merge plan, let's get some discussion going. Thanks, Nick -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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