From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kswapd and MM overload fix
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:48:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010606014839.A24257@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010606004450.C27651@athlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106051612500.9908-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106051612500.9908-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:16:57PM -0700
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:16:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> but I think we should also make the init code clear the zone data for
> empty zones so that these kinds of "use uninitialized stuff" things cannot
> happen. No?
that would fix it too indeed, OTOH I think changing the empty zone
handling in the kernel is beyond the scope of the bugfix (grep for
zone->size in mm/*.c :). Certainly making empty zones transparent to the
vm sounds much cleaner from a mm/*.c point of view but it may be faster
to skip the block with a branch instead of always computing it.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-05 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-05 22:44 kswapd and MM overload fix Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-05 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-05 23:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-06-05 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-06 7:54 ` Xavier Bestel
2001-06-05 23:48 ` Roger Larsson
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