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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: Maybe a VM bug in 2.4.18-18 from RH 8.0?
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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:57:19PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The only alternate fix is to be able to migrate pagetables (1st level
> only, pte) and all the other highmem capable allocations at runtime
> (pagecache, shared memory etc..). Which is clearly not possible in 2.5
> and 2.4.

Actually it should not be difficult for 2.5, though it's not done now.
Shared pagetables would complicate the implementation slightly. I've
gotten 100% backlash from my proposals in this area, so I'm not
touching it at all out of aggravation or whatever.


Bill
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