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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:57:55 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	cl@...ux-foundation.org, rja@....com, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	davej@...hat.com, arjan@...radead.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] badpage: simplify page_alloc flag check+clear

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:12:05 +0000 (GMT)
Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> 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.

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