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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Jan Hudec `Bulb' <bulb@xxxxxx> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/