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    SubjectRe: page-flags behavior on compound pages: a worry
    On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Hugh Dickins wrote:

    > > I know a patchset which solves this! ;)
    >
    > Oh, and I know a patchset which avoids these problems completely,
    > by not using compound pages at all ;)

    Another dumb idea: Stop the insanity of splitting pages on the fly?
    Splitting pages should work like page migration: Lock everything down and
    ensure no one is using the page and then do it. That way the compound pages
    and its metadata are as stable as a regular page.



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