linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH for review] [7/48] i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20070719144631.GA14938@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:46:31 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	wli@...omorphy.com, lkml@....ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for review] [7/48] i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from
	CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:48:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
 
 > Some users may want NX
 > or expanded swapspace support without the overhead or instability of
 > highmem. 

NX is still going to need the larger PTEs, so I don't see how this
change removes any 'overhead' or potential 'instability'.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the change, but this part
of the changelog seems to be false advertising.

	Dave

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