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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:09:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The conversion from using a slab cache to quicklist left some residual dead code.
>
> I note that in the conversion it now always allocates a whole page for
> the pgd, rather than the 32 bytes needed for a PAE pgd. Was this
> intended?
I believe that virtualization support needed a full pgd.
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