Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 May 2007 10:20:04 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [30/30] x86_64: Add missing !X86_PAE dependincy to the 2G/2G split. |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: >.. > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:32:33AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> You need to go search the archives and read the *extensive* thread >> on this from when it was introduced. Lots of high profile kernel >> developers were in on this one. > > Various good points were raised. The NX bit requiring > 3-level pagetables suggests that 3-level pagetables without highmem > would be valuable, at which point the unaligned splits to avoid highmem > with 3-level pagetables gain additional relevance. I'll queue that up > to be written along with split pmd affairs, and check for features > dependent on 4-level pagetables, too.
Excellent! That would be super to have in there, William.
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