linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] generic debug pagealloc

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Message-Id: <1236330860.7260.128.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:14:20 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic debug pagealloc

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:36 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alternatively, we could just not do the kmap_atomic() at all.  i386
> won't be using this code and IIRC the only other highmem architecture
> is powerpc32, and ppc32 appears to also have its own DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> implementation.  So you could remove the kmap_atomic() stuff and put
> 
Actually, ppc32 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is busted in several ways and probably
unfixable (though this is still being debated).

Cheers,
Ben.


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