Re: Small problem with pmd_page in 2.5

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:08:19 +0100

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:57:30PM -0400, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I was looking a little bit at sparc(32) and ran into a difficulty
> with pmd_page. The 2.5 version returns struct page*, presumably
> to support page tables in highmem. Unfortunately, sparc (sun4m
> actually) cannot do that, because its page tables are smaller
> than memory pages.

Same problem as ARM. For a description of how we fixed it, please
see:

http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2002-March/008089.html

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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