From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5595F0001 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:18:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 22:14:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/16] POISON: Add page flag for poisoned pages Message-Id: <20090407221421.890f27a6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090407150958.BA68F1D046D@basil.firstfloor.org> References: <20090407509.382219156@firstfloor.org> <20090407150958.BA68F1D046D@basil.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:09:58 +0200 (CEST) Andi Kleen wrote: > Poisoned pages need special handling in the VM and shouldn't be touched > again. This requires a new page flag. Define it here. I wish this patchset didn't change/abuse the well-understood meaning of the word "poison". > The page flags wars seem to be over, so it shouldn't be a problem > to get a new one. I hope. They are? How did it all get addressed? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org