Re: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

From: Rik Van Riel
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 18:57:31 EST


On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 Stuart_Hayes@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> My question is this: when split_large_page() is called, should it make
> the other 511 PTEs inherit the page attributes from the large page (with
> the exception of PAGE_PSE, obviously)?

I suspect it should.

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