Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:17:39 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] freepgt: free_pgtables shakeup |
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:57:25 +0100 Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Unfortunately not - free_pgd_slow doesn't have any knowledge about the > mm_struct that the pgd was associated with.
You could store the mm pointer in the page struct of the pgd, we used to that before set_pte_at() existed on sparc64 and ppc64 for pte level tables.
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