Re: [PATCH/RFC] Shared page tables

Dave Hansen
2006-01-18T00:17:32Z

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:53 -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> This appears to work on ia64 with the attached patch. Could you
> send me any test application you think would be helpful for me
> to verify it is operating correctly? I could not get the PTSHARE_PUD
> to compile. I put _NO_ effort into it. I found the following line
> was invalid and quit trying.
...
> +config PTSHARE
> + bool "Share page tables"
> + default y
> + help
> + Turn on sharing of page tables between processes for large shared
> + memory regions.
...

These are probably best put in mm/Kconfig, especially if you're going to
have verbatim copies in each architecture.

-- Dave