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SubjectRe: PATCH: 2.5.66 incremental (#4: Discontiguous patches & Dynamic PageFlag Bitmap)
Hi!

> This is pretty much the same as the original discontiguous pagedirs
> patch that you've already seen, except that instead of using real
> pageflags, bitmaps are made on the fly and discarded (as previously
> discussed). I've left the NoSave flag as a real pageflag so that drivers
> etc can mark pages Nosave if need be (is this a real possibility?).

Drivers should never ever need to set themselves nosave....

It contains the same double pointers and the same
hard-limit-on-#pages-to-be-saved.

Can't you solve the problem (too big alocations) without going to the
tree? Like linklist of pages containing pointers? Or maybe vmallocing
that pgdir so it can be larger?
Pavel
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