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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:20:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Page fault scalability patch V18: Drop first acquisition of ptl
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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>  > >  This is not relevant since it only deals with file pages.
>  >
>  > OK.   And CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC?
> 
>  Its a debug feature that can be fixed if its broken.

It's broken.

A fix would be to restore the get_page() if CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  Not
particularly glorious..