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Hi Benjamin,

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:56:34AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> What I mean here is that it's fine as a proof of concept ;-) I don't
> like it being in a series aimed at upstream...
> 
> We can try to flush out the issues, but as it is, the patch isn't
> upstreamable imho.

Well there's no real urgency to merge the ppc64 support immediately. I
will move it at the end of the patchset. Until the ppc64 patch is
applied you simply cannot set AUTONUMA=y but there's no regression
whatsoever.

> As for finding PTE bits, I have a few ideas we need to discuss, but
> nothing simple I'm afraid.

Sure we can discuss it.

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