Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:13:18 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [x86] Stricter check in follow_huge_addr() |
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* Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> > Subject: Compound Pages: Stricter check in follow_huge_addr > > The first page of the compound page is determined in > follow_huge_addr() but then PageCompound() only checks if the page is > part of a compound page. PageHead() allows checking if this is indeed > the first page of the compound.
thanks Christoph, applied.
btw., what type of real-life problem does this address? Did this trigger somewhere? (if yes, do you have any URLs i could put into the changelog?)
Ingo
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