Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:01:51 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.25-rc1: Add user friendliness to highmem= option |
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On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Michael Frank wrote:
> Thank you very much for your encouraging response ;) > > What is your opinion on shutting down the kernel on > zone alignment errors (applies to all arches) and > the force_bug method it uses to do so?
I think the init code should be smart enough to avoid the zone alignment errors in the first place.
Still, we should have a fallback in page_alloc.c to check the arch init code, otherwise problems related to zone alignment become nearly impossible to debug.
-- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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