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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:31:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: pte-highmem vs UKVA (was: object-based rmap and pte-highmem)
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> Another term for "UKVA for pagetables only" is "recursive pagetables",
> if this helps clarify anything.

Oh, ok. We did that for alpha, and it was a good deal there (it's actually
architected for alpha). So yes, I don't mind doing it for the page tables,
and it should work fine on x86 too (it's not necessarily a very portable
approach, since it requires that the pmd- and the pte- tables look the
same, which is not always true).

So sure, go ahead with that part.

		Linus

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