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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Small problem with pmd_page in 2.5
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:08:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020804190819.B2995@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020804125730.A1113@devserv.devel.redhat.com>; from zaitcev@redhat.com on Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:57:30PM -0400

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:57:30PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I was looking a little bit at sparc(32) and ran into a difficulty
> with pmd_page. The 2.5 version returns struct page*, presumably
> to support page tables in highmem. Unfortunately, sparc (sun4m
> actually) cannot do that, because its page tables are smaller
> than memory pages.

Same problem as ARM.  For a description of how we fixed it, please
see:

http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2002-March/008089.html

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


      reply	other threads:[~2002-08-04 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-04 16:57 Small problem with pmd_page in 2.5 Pete Zaitcev
2002-08-04 18:08 ` Russell King [this message]

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