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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:21:25 -0800
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:01:44 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> Hmmm...

Thinking some more, one thing that is unique in the PPC64
and SPARC64 cases is that we are executing primarily
32-bit tasks and in such cases one PGD maps the entire
address space.

I wonder if the free_pgtables() loops simply aren't
coping well with something like that.

I'm trying to analyze my traces some more.