On 05 Jun 2001 16:51:13 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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> > that would fix it too indeed, OTOH I think changing the empty zone
> > handling in the kernel is beyond the scope of the bugfix (grep for
> > zone->size in mm/*.c :). Certainly making e
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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> that would fix it too indeed, OTOH I think changing the empty zone
> handling in the kernel is beyond the scope of the bugfix (grep for
> zone->size in mm/*.c :). Certainly making empty zones transparent to the
> vm sounds much cleaner from a mm/*.
On Wednesday66 0666 6 June 2001 01:16, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Anybody running on a machine with some zone empty (<16Mbyte boxes (PDAs),
> > <1G x86 with highmem enabled kernel or an arch with an iommu like alpha)
> > probably noticed that the MM was
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:16:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> but I think we should also make the init code clear the zone data for
> empty zones so that these kinds of "use uninitialized stuff" things cannot
> happen. No?
that would fix it too indeed, OTOH I think changing the empty zone
han
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
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> Anybody running on a machine with some zone empty (<16Mbyte boxes (PDAs),
> <1G x86 with highmem enabled kernel or an arch with an iommu like alpha)
> probably noticed that the MM was unusable on those hardware
> configurations (as I also incidenta
Anybody running on a machine with some zone empty (<16Mbyte boxes (PDAs),
<1G x86 with highmem enabled kernel or an arch with an iommu like alpha)
probably noticed that the MM was unusable on those hardware
configurations (as I also incidentally mentioned a few times on l-k in
the last months).
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