Re: [patch] do_no_pfn

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 05:34:47 EST



> One struct page for a random single page here, another for a single
> random page there. And the risk that someone will start walking the
> pages and dereference and cause data corruption. As explained before,
> it's a bad idea.

Note sure what your point is. Why should they cause memory corruption?

Allowing struct page less VM is worse. If you add that then people
will use it for other stuff, and eventually we got a two class
VM. All not very good.

-Andi
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