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SubjectRe: [PATCH] resolve duplicate flag no for PG_lazyfree
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:46:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> otoh, the intersection between pages which are PageBooked() and pages which
> are PageLazyFree() should be zreo, so it'd be good to actually formalise
> this reuse within the ext4 patches.
>
> otoh2, PageLazyFree() could have reused PG_owner_priv_1.
>
> Rik, Ted: any thoughts? We do need to scrimp on page flags: when we
> finally run out, we're screwed.

It makes sense to me. PG_lazyfree is currently only in -mm, right? I
don't see it in my git tree. It would probably would be a good idea
to make sure that we check to add some sanity checking code if it
isn't there already that PG_lazyfree isn't already set when try to set
PG_lazyfree (just in case there is a bug in the future which causes
the should-never-happen case of trying lazy free a PageBooked page).

- Ted
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