Re: Page Colouring (was: 2.6.0 Huge pages not working as expected)

Mike Fedyk
2003-12-29T10:59:25Z

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:23:19AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> bits are sprinkled around, along with a few more involved changes because
> a large number of distributed changes are required to handle oddities
> that occur when PAGE_SIZE changes from 4KB. The more involved changes
> are often for things such as the only reason it uses PAGE_SIZE is
> really that it just expects 4KB and says PAGE_SIZE, or that it wants
> some fixed (even across compiles) size and needs updating for more
> general PAGE_SIZE numbers, or sometimes that it expects PAGE_SIZE to be
> what a pte maps when this is now represented by MMUPAGE_SIZE.

Any chance some of these changes are self contained, and could be split out
and possibly merged into -mm?