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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

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

Thread overview: 43+ 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
2008-03-02 17:53 ` Joseph Fannin
2008-03-02 19:34   ` Rick van Rein
2008-03-03 14:14 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-03 16:41   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-08 10:25     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-08 10:30       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-03 17:38 ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found] ` <20080303082238.GB13580@elte.hu>
     [not found]   ` <47CC3005.5090706@zytor.com>
     [not found]     ` <20080304133028.GC32383@elte.hu>
2008-03-04 16:29       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04 16:47         ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-04 12:21 devzero
2008-03-04 13:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 13:43   ` Rick van Rein
2008-03-04 14:06     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-04 15:05     ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-08 10:27   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-08 11:13     ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-10 10:12       ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 11:24         ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 11:52           ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-10 14:23             ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 17:20               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-10 17:48                 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 18:59                 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 19:16                   ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 22:56                   ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-11  0:37                     ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-11 17:23                   ` Len Brown
2008-03-11 17:49                     ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-11 19:24                       ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-11 20:00                         ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-10 22:07                 ` Rick van Rein
2008-03-11  0:41                 ` Jan-Simon Möller
2008-03-11  6:41                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-04 14:00 devzero

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