From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 08:49:11 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] badpage: keep any bad page out of circulation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Dave Jones , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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? -- 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