linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm: Make transparent huge code not depend upon the details of pgtable

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Message-ID: <20121002224921.GR4763@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2012 00:49:21 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hannes@...xchg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm: Make transparent huge code not depend upon the
 details of pgtable_t

Hi Dave,

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 06:27:18PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 
> The code currently assumes that pgtable_t is a struct page pointer.
> 
> Fix this by pushing pgtable management behind arch helper functions.

This should be fixed in -mm already, it's from the s390x support.
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