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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -V2 06/21] powerpc: Add size argument to
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:17:13PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> We will use this later with THP changes. With THP we want to create PMD with
> twice the size. The second half will be used to depoist pgtable, which will
                                                  ^ deposit?
> carry the hpte hash index value

I'm not familiar with what "deposit" and "withdraw" mean in the THP
context.  If you can find a way to make the patch description more
informative for people who are not completely familiar with THP
(without adding a full-blown description of THP, of course) that would
be good.

Paul.