On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:19:06 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I should either revert that commit or just check for "free_pages" being > negative. The latter, in many ways, is probably better, because generally > we simply should never work with negative numbers in the kernel, so when > something potentially goes negative, we're probably just better off always > testing it explicitly anyway. > > Nick, Andrew, any preferences? It would be cleaner to check for negativity, but note that we keep subtracting stuff from free_pages in the later loop, so we'd need to check there as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
