... which is useful and valid, but I still think this isn't related to
James' problem, if James' problem wasn't actually fixed in -rc3. That's
the part that I'm afraid I have to be confused about... all the known
problems except the above are fixed in -rc3, and I'd at least like to
have a validated bug report of any sort before saying it should all be
tossed.
This patch looks a lot better. The whole use of MAX_NUMNODES as a
sentinel (which appears inherited from mm/page_alloc.c, and as such is a
pre-existing convention which is also invoked here) really could use a
comment, though.
-hpa
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