Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 04:50:20 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: PG_reserved bug |
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:45:06PM +0200, Amir Hermelin wrote: > Ok, fair enough. According to what you say, this behavior won't change in > 2.6. So, I'm still left with my second question: since I do access the > pages from several places in my module, and I want to use the refcount field > of the struct page (and not have to wrap the pages in another structure) so > I know when my page is no longer referenced, how can I make sure it's 'safe' > to not use the reserved bit?
It looks like you'll have to wrap the pages in another structure. The refcounts for reserved pages are effectively meaningless.
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