Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:09:39 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Shared Page Tables [1/2] |
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Magnus Damm wrote: > On 4/11/06, Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>No one actually uses any of the pud_page and pgd_page macros (other than >>one reference in the same include file). After some discussion on the list >>the last time I posted the patches, we agreed that changing pud_page and >>pgd_page to be consistent with pmd_page is the best solution. We also >>agreed that I should go ahead and propagate that change across all >>architectures even though not all of them currently support shared page >>tables. This patch is the result of that work. > > > What is the merge status of this patch? > > I've written some generic page table creation code for kexec, but the > fact that pud_page() returns struct page * on i386 but unsigned long > on other architectures makes it hard to write clean generic code. > > Any merge objections, or was this patch simply overlooked?
Don't think there would be any objections. If someone sends along a broken out patch, I'm sure it could get into 2.6.18.
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