Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Compound page overhaul | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:03:27 +0000 |
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Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>: > The refcounting has been annoying me for a while, it just feels > wrong. It has been done that way for a very long time (since 2.4.0 > IIRC). I am sure there was more to it back in the 2.4 but I don't > think we need to do it like this any more.
It was like that in 2.4 also - where I first developed this arch and these mm changes. The refcount-on-free bug is there also. I don't know why no one else has hit it.
> I don't have any problem with what David has done so far though > I need to test it more extensively first.
That'd be great! :-)
I need to look at dumping my 2.4 arch & changes into the 2.4-uc kernels too.
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