Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Compound page overhaul | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:18:35 +0000 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>: > ugh, sorry, I'd forgotten that !MMU needs to use the fields inside > pages[1]. It seems that the !MMU requirement is in that case quite > dissimilar from what compound pages are supposed to do. Perhaps we should > just forget the whole thing and stick with the current design approach?
Nonono... you misunderstand. Compound-pages support uses fields from page[1] to store extra data. It's nothing at all to do with MMU vs !MMU.
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