linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:32:47 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <m-kosaki@...es.dti.ne.jp>
Cc:	"Rick van Rein" <rick@...rein.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] mm: BadRAM support for broken memory

On Monday 03 March 2008 04:01, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
>
> in general,
> Agreed with we need bad memory treatness.
>
> >  +#define PG_badram              20      /* BadRam page */
>
> some architecture use PG_reserved for treat bad memory.
> Why do you want introduce new page flag?
> for show_mem() improvement?

I'd like to get rid of PG_reserved at some point. So I'd
rather not overload it with more meanings ;)

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