Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch -mm series] ia64 specific /dev/mem handlers | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:08:41 +0100 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes: > > Is it possible to avoid consuming a page flag? > > If this is an ia64-only (or 64-bit-only) thing I guess we could use bit 32.
It's not. i386 essentially has the same problem. Other architectures likely too. We definitely need a generic solution, especially when we're going to support PAT on i386/x86-64 better (which I hope will happen soon)
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