Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Dynamically allocated pageflags | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 14:31:29 +0100 |
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On Thursday 02 February 2006 12:11, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This is my latest revision of the dynamically allocated pageflags patch. > > The patch is useful for kernel space applications that sometimes need to flag > pages for some purpose, but don't otherwise need the retain the state. A prime > example is suspend-to-disk, which needs to flag pages as unsaveable, allocated > by suspend-to-disk and the like while it is working, but doesn't need to > retain any of this state between cycles.
It looks like total overkill for a simple problem to me. And is there really any other user of this other than swsusp?
-Andi
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