From: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Hugh Dickins" <hugh@veritas.com>,
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] remove PageReserved
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:09:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9AB335F0-28CD-4561-B447-DA09CF44F0AB@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E5F139.70002@yahoo.com.au>
On Jul 26, 2005, at 3:15 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> If you're feeling like -mm is getting too stable, then you might
> consider giving these patches a spin? (unless anyone else raises
> an objection).
>
> Ben thought I should get moving with them soon.
>
> Not much change from last time. A bit of ppc64 input from Ben,
> and some rmap.c input from Hugh. Boots and runs on a few machines
> I have lying around here.
>
> The only remaining places that *test* PageReserved are swsusp, a
> trivial useage in drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.c, and arch/ code.
>
> Most of the arch code is just reserved memory reporting, which
> isn't very interesting and could easily be removed. Some arch users
> are a bit more subtle, however they *should not* break, because all
> the places that set and clear PageReserved are basically intact.
What is the desired fix look like for arch users?
- kumar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-26 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-26 8:15 Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:16 ` [patch 1/6] mm: comment rmap Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:17 ` [patch 2/6] mm: micro-optimise rmap Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:18 ` [patch 3/6] mm: cleanup rmap Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:19 ` [patch 4/6] mm: remove atomic Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:20 ` [patch 5/6] mm: remap ZERO_PAGE mappings Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:20 ` [patch 6/6] mm: core remove PageReserved Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:56 ` [patch 6/6] mm: core remove PageReserved (take 2) Nick Piggin
2005-07-27 11:30 ` [patch 2/6] mm: micro-optimise rmap Alexander Nyberg
2005-07-28 0:53 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 8:21 ` [patch 0/6] remove PageReserved Nick Piggin
2005-07-26 13:09 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2005-07-27 0:22 ` Nick Piggin
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