Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:07:51 -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> > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > > > 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. > > Rik, not every architecture has a "counter" member of > atomic_t, that is the problem. This is a hard bug, please > fix it. It is an opaque type, accessing its' implementation > directly is therefore illegal in the strongest way possible.
OK, agreed. I'm making a new patch right now.
regards,
Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document
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