Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Date | Tue, 09 Aug 2005 14:39:52 +1000 |
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Hi.
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 07:09, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > It doesn't look like they'll be able to easily free up a page > > flag for 2 reasons. First, PageReserved will probably be kept > > around for at least one release. Second, swsusp and some arch > > code (ioremap) wants to know about struct pages that don't point > > to valid RAM - currently they use PageReserved, but we'll probably > > just introduce a PageValidRAM or something when PageReserved goes.
Changing the e820 code so it sets PageNosave instead of PageReserved, along with a couple of modifications in swsusp itself should get rid of the swsusp dependency.
Regards,
Nigel -- Evolution. Enumerate the requirements. Consider the interdependencies. Calculate the probabilities.
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