Re: 2.5.46-mm1

Dave McCracken
2002-11-06T19:14:32Z

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--On Wednesday, November 06, 2002 20:12:50 +0300 Paul P Komkoff Jr
<i@stingr.net> wrote:

> Why sharepte is dependent on highmem now ?

It's not supposed to be. I'm guessing it's a conversion error in the move
to Kconfig. A patch to fix it is attached.

> I thought I will benefit from it on forkloads on lowmem too ...

It's definitely a benefit for all sizes of memory.

Dave McCracken

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Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059

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--- 2.5.46-mm1/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 13:17:20.000000000 -0600
+++ 2.5.46-mm1-shsent/arch/i386/Kconfig 2002-11-06 11:38:50.000000000 -0600
@@ -722,7 +722,6 @@

config SHAREPTE
bool "Share 3rd-level pagetables between processes"
- depends on HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G
help
Normally each address space has its own complete page table for all
its mappings. This can mean many mappings of a set of shared data