Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:01:10 +0200 | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Subject | Re: [patch] do_no_pfn |
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Robin Holt wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:06:05PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> The big question is - why do you have pages without struct page? >> It seems ... wrong. [snip] > Are you saying the for the mspec pages we should extend the vmem_map, > partially populate the regions for the mspec pages, mark those pages as > uncached and reserved and then turn them over to the uncached allocator? > Seems like we have done a lot of extra work to put a struct page behind > a page which requires special handling.
Note that Bjorn Helgas has a case where he needs this as well.
We could fake the pages by giving them a struct page, but it really makes no point as you say.
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