Re: [PATCH] struct page shrinkage

Rik van Riel
2002-02-26T01:57:38Z

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:47:00 -0300 (BRT)
>
> Please apply for 2.4.19-pre2.
>
> Please fix the atomic_t assumptions in init_page_count() first.
> You should be using atomic_set(...).

Why ? You'll see init_page_count() is _only_ used from
free_area_init_core(), when nothing else is using the VM
yet.

This exact same code has been in -rmap for a few months
and went into 2.5 just over a week ago. It doesn't seem
to give any problems ...

regards,

Rik
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