Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752665AbYLAOuk (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:50:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751139AbYLAOuc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:50:32 -0500 Received: from nlpi053.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.36.82]:58117 "EHLO nlpi053.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898AbYLAOuc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:50:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 08:49:11 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@quilx.com To: Hugh Dickins cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Dave Jones , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] badpage: keep any bad page out of circulation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: -2.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 14 On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Until now the bad_page() checkers have special-cased PageReserved, keeping > those pages out of circulation thereafter. Now extend the special case to > all: we want to keep ANY page with bad state out of circulation - the > "free" page may well be in use by something. If I screw up with a VM patch then my machine will now die because of OOM instead of letting me shutdown and reboot? -- 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/