Re: [PATCH 2/4] debug-pagealloc: add support for highmem pages

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Tue Aug 23 2011 - 11:26:48 EST


2011/8/23 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> This seems more complicated than is needed.  Couldn't we just do
>
> static void poison_page(struct page *page)
> {
>        void *addr;
>
>        preempt_disable();
>        addr = kmap_atomic(page);
>        set_page_poison(page);
>        memset(addr, PAGE_POISON, PAGE_SIZE);
>        kunmap_atomic(addr);
>        preempt_enable();
> }
>
> ?

This code looks much better. I'll update the patch.
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