Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection)

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> This is a forward port to 2.6 CVS of the lowmem_reserve VM feature in
> the 2.4 kernel.
> 
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.6/2.6.9/lowmem_reserve-1

-       unsigned long           protection[MAX_NR_ZONES];
+       unsigned long           lowmem_reserve[MAX_NR_ZONES];

The gratituous renaming of variable and function names makes
it hard to see what this patch actually changed.  Hard enough
that I'm not sure what the behavioural difference is supposed
to be.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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