Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:55:20 -0700 | From | Andrew Grover <> | Subject | Re: 4level page tables for Linux II |
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:57:24 +0200, Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote: > Hi, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > And when you cannot remember the few names for the level you > > better shouldn't touch VM at all. > > Disagree. Rather strongly in fact. > > It's probably OK if you already know the stuff and have been hacking > Linux' mm for years already, but if you try to learn how things work by > actually looking at the code..? > > Just number them. Let pd1 point to pages, pd2 to pd1 entries, and so on. > (Level zero is the actual pages.)
I happen to agree, but surely this can be addressed at our leisure, after pml4 is in.
Maybe a good task for the kernel janitors, if we all agree more sensible names are desirable.
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