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On 08/04/2015 01:38 PM, David Daney wrote:
> I don't know what the purpose of guard pages is.  I thought it was to 
> produce an OOPs message if you accessed just beyond the end of the 
> vmap area.  If people are using them for some other reason, then I am 
> not aware of it.
>
>
Right, but if you have a buddy problem then it means that in your case 
the guard page IS USED... and doesn't produce OOPs.