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Re: Bad page state in process

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:06:56AM -0800, Mike DeKoker wrote:
> Am I doing something incorrectly in the driver code? Or is it a bad
> assumption that the kernel is making in marking the pages as bad? It seems
> that the PG_reserved bit was added to the free_pages_check somewhere between
> kernel versions 2.6.10 and 2.6.18. Why?

Try using git to find which exact revision the check was added in
and read the respective commit message.

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