From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] badpage: keep any bad page out of circulation
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 08:49:11 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812010848160.15331@quilx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812010040330.11401@blonde.site>
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Until now the bad_page() checkers have special-cased PageReserved, keeping
> those pages out of circulation thereafter. Now extend the special case to
> all: we want to keep ANY page with bad state out of circulation - the
> "free" page may well be in use by something.
If I screw up with a VM patch then my machine will now die because of OOM
instead of letting me shutdown and reboot?
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-01 0:37 [PATCH 0/8] badpage: more resilient bad page pte and rmap Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 0:40 ` [PATCH 1/8] badpage: simplify page_alloc flag check+clear Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 14:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-12-01 23:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-12-02 2:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-12-02 10:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-12-02 13:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-12-02 14:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-12-03 0:57 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-01 0:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] badpage: keep any bad page out of circulation Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 14:49 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-12-01 23:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 0:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] badpage: replace page_remove_rmap Eeek and BUG Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 0:43 ` [PATCH 4/8] badpage: vm_normal_page use print_bad_pte Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 0:44 ` [PATCH 5/8] badpage: zap print_bad_pte on swap and file Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 0:45 ` [PATCH 6/8] badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmap Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 0:46 ` [PATCH 7/8] badpage: ratelimit print_bad_pte and bad_page Hugh Dickins
2008-12-03 0:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-03 13:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 0:48 ` [PATCH 8/8] badpage: KERN_ALERT BUG instead of KERN_EMERG Hugh Dickins
2008-12-01 14:40 ` Christoph Lameter
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