Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756119AbYLCA7u (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:59:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754630AbYLCA7f (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:59:35 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50160 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753245AbYLCA7d (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:59:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:57:55 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Hugh Dickins Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org, rja@sgi.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, davej@redhat.com, arjan@infradead.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] badpage: simplify page_alloc flag check+clear Message-Id: <20081202165755.0306b56f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 24 On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:12:05 +0000 (GMT) Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > > > But they are always clear on free. The checking is irrelevant. > > > > > > How about CHECK_PAGE_FLAGS_CLEAR_AT_FREE? > > > > Strange name. > > Looks like I'm not going to be able to satisfy you then. I didn't > introduce the names in the patch, so let's leave them as is for now, > and everybody can muse on what they should get called in the end. It's unclear to me where your discussion with Christoph ended up, so I went the merge-it-and-see-who-shouts-at-me route. -- 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/