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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:03:42 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers
> in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c
> While doing 4level I think I changed all of them around several
> times and it wasn't that big an issue. So it's not that we
> have a big pressing problem here...

It's super error prone. A regression added by your edit of these
walkers for the 4level changes was only discovered and fixed
yesterday by the ppc folks.

I absolutely support any change which consolidates these things.
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