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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7u1 09/31] x86, 64bit: #PF handler set page to cover 2M only
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:48:29PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Now #PF hanlder could map 1G per #PF, That causes same problem that
> is fixed by
> x86, mm: Only direct map addresses that are marked as E820_RAM
>
> only add one 2M mapping instead of 1G accessing one time for dynamically
> per #PF.

Ok, I can more or less grasp what the code does but this sentence above
is a lot of fun. Do you mean:

"add only one 2M mapping per #PF instead of all 512 pmds comprising 1G"

?

Thanks.

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