From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, wli@holomorphy.com, hch@infradead.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compound page overhaul 
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>:
> ugh, sorry, I'd forgotten that !MMU needs to use the fields inside
> pages[1].  It seems that the !MMU requirement is in that case quite
> dissimilar from what compound pages are supposed to do.  Perhaps we should
> just forget the whole thing and stick with the current design approach?

Nonono... you misunderstand. Compound-pages support uses fields from page[1]
to store extra data. It's nothing at all to do with MMU vs !MMU.

David
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