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Subject: Re: sparsemem patches in -mm
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:13:52 -0700

> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/sparsemem/

The only thing that sticks out to me in this patch is that
sparc64 uses a field starting at bit 24 in page->flags to
determine the cpu which needs a D-cache flush for a page.

I don't think the page->flags rework makes things any different
than before, but it's something to keep in mind.