Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09T14:50:47Z

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > But you don't mind if they are refcounted, do you?
> > Just so long as they start out from 1 so never get freed.
>
> Well, a refcounting bug would let them be freed and kaboom ... That's
> why a "PG_not_your_ram_dammit" bit would be useful. It could at least
> BUG_ON when refcount reaches 0 :)

Okay, great, let's give every struct page two refcounts,
so if one of them goes wrong, the other one will save us.

Hugh