Re: [PATCH] poison: add & use more constants

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 13:54 -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add more poison values to include/linux/poison.h.
> It's not clear to me whether some others should be added or not,
> so I haven't added any of these:
> 
> ./include/linux/libata.h:#define ATA_TAG_POISON		0xfafbfcfdU
> ./arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c:1918:	memset((char *)(&(immap->im_dprambase[(mem_addr+64)])), 0x88, 32);
> ./drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c:429:	memset(mem, 0xe5, sizeof(struct mon_event_text));
> ./drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-ctl.c:738:		memset(ft_buffer[i]->address, 0xAA, FT_BUFF_SIZE);
> ./drivers/block/sx8.c:/* 0xf is just arbitrary, non-zero noise; this is sorta like poisoning */

You don't have my personal favorite?  From AIX that would poison pages
with 0xdeadbeef  :)

-- Steve


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