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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. Cheers! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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