On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > But you don't mind if they are refcounted, do you? > > Just so long as they start out from 1 so never get freed. > > Well, a refcounting bug would let them be freed and kaboom ... That's > why a "PG_not_your_ram_dammit" bit would be useful. It could at least > BUG_ON when refcount reaches 0 :)
Okay, great, let's give every struct page two refcounts, so if one of them goes wrong, the other one will save us. Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
