ppc64 oops..

Linus Torvalds torvalds at osdl.org
Tue Nov 15 17:17:01 EST 2005



On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Andrew, Nick, Hugh, I really think that removing that "PageReserved()" 
> test from the page freeing functions was a mistake. I think I'm going to 
> add it back in.

No, it's not that simple. I think it's still related, but the bootmem code 
shouldn't have cared about PG_reserved anyway, so my simplistic theory was 
incorrect.

Maybe it's a ppc64 thing after all.

If push comes to shove, I'll bisect it, but now I'm turning in for the 
dat.

		Linus



More information about the Linuxppc64-dev mailing list