Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:35:02 +1100 |
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On Monday 03 March 2008 18:14, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > some architecture use PG_reserved for treat bad memory. > > > Why do you want introduce new page flag? > > > for show_mem() improvement? > > > > I'd like to get rid of PG_reserved at some point. So I'd > > rather not overload it with more meanings ;) > > really? > > as far as I know, IA64 already use PG_reserved for bad memory. > please see arch/ia64/kernel/mcs_drv.c#mca_page_isolate. > > Doesn't it works on ia64 if your patch introduce?
It doesn't really need to use PG_reserved there, no. It could use PG_bad for that instead.
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