Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262954AbUKYDiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:38:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262957AbUKYDiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:38:50 -0500 Received: from pacific.moreton.com.au ([203.143.235.130]:37137 "EHLO bne.snapgear.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262954AbUKYDir (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:38:47 -0500 Message-ID: <41A55376.3010608@snapgear.com> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:37:26 +1000 From: Greg Ungerer Organization: SnapGear User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Howells Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compound page overhaul References: <41A49940.6030104@snapgear.com> <20041122155434.758c6fff.akpm@osdl.org> <11948.1101130077@redhat.com> <29356.1101201515@redhat.com> <20041123081129.3e0121fd.akpm@osdl.org> <20041123171039.GK2714@holomorphy.com> <30282.1101319407@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <30282.1101319407@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 41 Hi David, David Howells wrote: > Greg Ungerer : > >>The refcounting has been annoying me for a while, it just feels >>wrong. It has been done that way for a very long time (since 2.4.0 >>IIRC). I am sure there was more to it back in the 2.4 but I don't >>think we need to do it like this any more. > > > It was like that in 2.4 also - where I first developed this arch and these mm > changes. The refcount-on-free bug is there also. I don't know why no one else > has hit it. > > >>I don't have any problem with what David has done so far though >>I need to test it more extensively first. > > > That'd be great! :-) > > I need to look at dumping my 2.4 arch & changes into the 2.4-uc kernels too. That would be good :-) Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Chief Software Dude EMAIL: gerg@snapgear.com SnapGear -- a CyberGuard Company PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 825 Stanley St, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia WEB: http://www.SnapGear.com - 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/