Re: [PATCH] page->flags corruption fix

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Sun Oct 12 2003 - 12:21:35 EST


On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> we can argue about the filemap.c part, but I'm sure the page_alloc.c
> part can't make any sense ever.

Agreed, the __free_pages_ok() change can almost certainly be
undone and made more efficient.

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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