Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:57:38 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] struct page shrinkage |
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:47:00 -0300 (BRT) > > Please apply for 2.4.19-pre2. > > Please fix the atomic_t assumptions in init_page_count() first. > You should be using atomic_set(...).
Why ? You'll see init_page_count() is _only_ used from free_area_init_core(), when nothing else is using the VM yet.
This exact same code has been in -rmap for a few months and went into 2.5 just over a week ago. It doesn't seem to give any problems ...
regards,
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