Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 15:27:55 EST



* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Does it really really really need to consume one of our few remaining page
> > flags? We'll be in a mess when we run out.
>
> Actually it doesn't. I attach a patch which gets rid of the page flag,
> and we rely instead on the PTE flag for page-trackedness.
[...]
> Ingo, will you take this for some additional testing?

thanks Vegard, i've applied it - looks good to me too.

Ingo
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