From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261753AbVGZNJu (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:09:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261749AbVGZNJu (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:09:50 -0400 Received: from az33egw01.freescale.net ([192.88.158.102]:1710 "EHLO az33egw01.freescale.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261753AbVGZNJt (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:09:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42E5F139.70002@yahoo.com.au> References: <42E5F139.70002@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9AB335F0-28CD-4561-B447-DA09CF44F0AB@freescale.com> Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Hugh Dickins" , "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" , "linux-kernel" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] remove PageReserved Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:09:40 -0500 To: Nick Piggin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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