From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765095AbXGVM7M (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:59:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761001AbXGVM65 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:58:57 -0400 Received: from noname.neutralserver.com ([70.84.186.210]:41226 "EHLO noname.neutralserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754369AbXGVM64 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:58:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:58:48 +0300 From: Dan Aloni To: Linux Kernel List Subject: do_swap_page() and !CONFIG_SWAP Message-ID: <20070722125848.GA6182@localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - noname.neutralserver.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - monatomic.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, Is there any valid reason (except memory corruption) for do_swap_page() to be called in a x86_64 2.6.21.5 kernel where CONFIG_SWAP is not selected? If not, does it make sense to put there something in lines of: print_bad_pte(vma, orig_pte, address); panic("unexpected swap pte - possible page table memory corruption\n"); ? -- Dan Aloni XIV LTD, http://www.xivstorage.com da-x (at) monatomic.org, dan (at) xiv.co.il