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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] Shared Page Tables [1/2]
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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