From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422812AbXCBFP2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:15:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422811AbXCBFP2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:15:28 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:57141 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422812AbXCBFP2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:15:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 05:15:24 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , support@coraid.com, "Ed L. Cashin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: PATCH 2.6.21-rc1 aoe: handle zero _count pages in bios Message-ID: <20070302051524.GA26803@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , support@coraid.com, "Ed L. Cashin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH References: <20070301231510.GC8524@coraid.com> <20070301174204.a550dd3a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070302022919.GA26285@infradead.org> <20070301192245.bf034385.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070302043039.GA18651@infradead.org> <20070301204806.61225e2b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070302044910.GA22209@infradead.org> <20070301210044.d95bcd70.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070302050351.GA24705@infradead.org> <20070301210942.ebf40993.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070301210942.ebf40993.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:09:42PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > or document that drivers need to handle it specially and give them a > > way to find out about them. (Or do the horrible slab refcounting hack > > I wrote up above) > > OK. So you're proposing that XFS and ext3 simply stop sing slab for this > memory? Yes.