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    SubjectRe: What's a "pmd"?
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    > I am getting a whole slew of messages about bad ones (pmds) when I reboot
    > from 1.3.74. The two normal messages about termination appear, there are a
    > few seconds of pause, and then a string of messages like
    >
    > use_pmd (bad pmd <an address>)
    >
    > Seems to work correctly after the batch of grey-hair generators though. I
    > have never seen this before...
    >
    > Harvey
    >

    I see the same thing here.

    A pmd is a page middle directory, I think. The strange thing is,
    that the intel cpu's have a two level paging scheme, so there shouldn't
    be a pmd at all.
    I think, Linus will know.

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    Joerg
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