Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Why preallocate pmd in x86 32-bit PAE? |
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > If you happened to do a 1G munmap, it may end up freeing and > reallocating them, but that's going to be very rare.
I don't think we ever free the pmd's now, do we?
(Except for the *final* free, of course, when we release the whole VM).
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