linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup over to set

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Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:58:40 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [12/12] GBPAGES: Switch direct mapping setup over to set_pte


> Why?  64-bit Xen will need this to be set_pmd if its an update to L2 of
> the table.

Then change_page_attr() and hugepages will already not work because they both 
do exactly that.

And I didn't want to duplicate this manual code for the GBpages case, so i 
changed it everywhere to the standard way.

-Andi


>     J


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