Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Dec 2008 08:49:11 -0600 (CST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/8] badpage: keep any bad page out of circulation |
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Until now the bad_page() checkers have special-cased PageReserved, keeping > those pages out of circulation thereafter. Now extend the special case to > all: we want to keep ANY page with bad state out of circulation - the > "free" page may well be in use by something.
If I screw up with a VM patch then my machine will now die because of OOM instead of letting me shutdown and reboot?
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