Re: [PATCH] Tight check of pfn_valid on sparsemem - v3

[Minchan Kim]

2010/7/26 Penttilä Mika <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I don't think this works because if the memmap pages get reused, the corresponding struct page->private could be used by chance in such a way that it has the value of MEMMAP_HOLE. Of course unlikely but possible. And after all the whole point of freeing part of the memmap is that it could be reused.
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You're absolutely right.
Previous version, I didn't do such as.
In this version, I wanted to remove dependency of page->private and
mem_section to identify hole memmap for using it in FLATMEM of ARM but
make mistake.
I will resend the patch

Thanks for careful review.

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Minchan Kim
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