Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261460AbUCUXYd (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:24:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261461AbUCUXYd (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:24:33 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:53193 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261460AbUCUXYb (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:24:31 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:24:27 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: m.c.p@wolk-project.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: do we want to kill VM_RESERVED or not? [was Re: 2.6.5-rc1-aa3] Message-Id: <20040321152427.61d88cea.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040321114939.GA10787@dualathlon.random> References: <20040320210306.GA11680@dualathlon.random> <200403211105.05908@WOLK> <20040321114939.GA10787@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 635 Lines: 15 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > believe my robustness > BUG_ON are correct and this is not a false positive, if we want to kill > VM_RESERVED I can remove the BUG_ON(reserved == pageable) which is the one > triggering with vmware right now] I'd prefer to retain VM_RESERVED and work toward removing PageReserved(). The latter has a real and measurable cost in put_page(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/