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From: Rick van Rein <rick@vanrein.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <m-kosaki@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: Rick van Rein <rick@vanrein.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:42:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080302174235.GA26902@phantom.vanrein.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f11576a0803020901n715fda8esbfc0172f5a15ae3c@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Kosaki,

> in general,
> Agreed with we need bad memory treatness.

Glad to hear that.

> >  +#define PG_badram              20      /* BadRam page */
> 
> some architecture use PG_reserved for treat bad memory.
> Why do you want introduce new page flag?

It is clearer to properly name a flag, I suppose.
Is the use that you are mentioning the intended, and only use of the flag?
If not, I think it is clearer to use a separate flag instead of overloading
one.

> for show_mem() improvement?

For code clarity.


Thanks,
 -Rick

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-02 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-02 13:42 [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory Rick van Rein
2008-03-02 17:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-02 17:42   ` Rick van Rein [this message]
2008-03-03  3:21     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-03  5:32   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03  7:14     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-03  7:35       ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03  9:49         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-03  9:58         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-03-03 17:38 ` Randy Dunlap

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