linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] GBPAGES: Fix global bit for 64bit

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:35:34 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GBPAGES: Fix global bit for 64bit

> Last time when my patch to do this was in the tree, it caused random 
> things to fail, even after increasing the strength of various tlb 
> flushes.  Did you change something to fix this?

At least all the flushes in init_64 are global now. 

But my latest iteration of gbpages actually doesn't need this patch anymore 
because I'm back to using PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE (without underscores) 

-Andi
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