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SubjectRe: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1
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On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 19:21 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Note that there is still another similar check in there for an arch
> > specific test of the number of pages available per swap device.
>
> And that check, also Martin's I believe, has very good justification:
> it will vary from arch to arch how big a swap area they can handle, and
> his check is the right way to do it - no more obscure than it has to be.

Yes, I added that fix since we managed to crash s390 with a swap disk
bigger than 4GB. To keep the symmetry I changed the check for the swap
type as well.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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