Re: hugepage patches

"David S. Miller" [off-list ref] wrote:

   From: Andrew Morton [off-list ref]
   Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:36:26 -0800

   "David S. Miller" [off-list ref] wrote:
   >
   > Remind me why we can't just look at the PTE?
   
   Diktat ;)
   
I understand, but give _ME_ a way to use the pagetables if
that is how things are implemented.  Don't force me to do
a VMA lookup if I need not.

I did?  pmd_huge()/follow_huge_pmd().  Patch 2/4.

It might not be 100% appropriate for sparc64 pagetable representation - I
just guessed...
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