On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Minchan Kim wrote: > >> But in fact I have a concern to use PG_reserved since it can be used >> afterward pfn_valid normally to check hole in non-hole system. So I >> think it's redundant. Ignore me. I got confused. > > PG_reserved is already used to mark pages not handled by the page > allocator (see mmap_init_zone). I will resend below approach. static inline int memmap_valid(unsigned long pfn) { struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn); struct page *__pg = virt_to_page(page); return page_private(__pg) == MAGIC_MEMMAP && PageReserved(__pg); } Thanks, all. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>