Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261899AbUJZCEB (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:04:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261911AbUJZCDi (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:03:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:29897 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261899AbUJZBso (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:48:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:48:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Andrew Morton , , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection) In-Reply-To: <20041025170128.GF14325@dualathlon.random> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 25 On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > This is a forward port to 2.6 CVS of the lowmem_reserve VM feature in > the 2.4 kernel. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.9/lowmem_reserve-1 - unsigned long protection[MAX_NR_ZONES]; + unsigned long lowmem_reserve[MAX_NR_ZONES]; The gratituous renaming of variable and function names makes it hard to see what this patch actually changed. Hard enough that I'm not sure what the behavioural difference is supposed to be. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/