Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261266AbVCaK5T (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:57:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261302AbVCaK5T (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:57:19 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:57755 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261266AbVCaK5P (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:57:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:57:03 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andi Kleen , Nick Piggin , akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, tony.luck@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list Message-ID: <20050331105703.GK1623@wotan.suse.de> References: <20050324122637.GK895@wotan.suse.de> <20050330150813.GF28472@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 21 > > Ok. I will change it to a VMA. > > Thanks. (It's only the 32-bit emulation case I'm caring about, I did the patch now and it works, but due to some technical problems I can only upload it next week. Surprisingly the new code is actually shorter than the old one and cleaner too. > that poses a problem for free_pgtables: I'm not sure whether you're > meaning to VMA-ize the 64-bit one too, that's entirely up to you.) 64bit is beyond __PAGE_OFFSET and mapped by the kernel, there are no page tables to free. I dont see any sense in making it a VMA. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/