Re: pte-highmem-5

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:04:37 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> This patch in short will move pagetables into highmem, obviously it
> breaks all the archs out there.

Hmm.. Looks ok, although I miss the "obviously". Archs have their own page
table allocator functions, so by allocating lowmem (and most non-x86 won't
care) the change _should_ have zero impact on them simply because they
don't need to unmap. No?

Linus

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