Re: Small problem with pmd_page in 2.5

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 13:08:19 EST

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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

-- 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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