Re: do we want to kill VM_RESERVED or not? [was Re: 2.6.5-rc1-aa3]

[Andrew Morton]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> believe my robustness
>  BUG_ON are correct and this is not a false positive, if we want to kill
>  VM_RESERVED I can remove the BUG_ON(reserved == pageable) which is the one
>  triggering with vmware right now]

I'd prefer to retain VM_RESERVED and work toward removing PageReserved(). 
The latter has a real and measurable cost in put_page().

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