Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751685AbVKJDBw (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:01:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751686AbVKJDBv (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:01:51 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:24498 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751684AbVKJDBv (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:01:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 19:01:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Hugh Dickins Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/15] mm: atomic64 page counts Message-Id: <20051109190135.45e59298.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20051109181641.4b627eee.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 565 Lines: 15 Hugh Dickins wrote: > > ... > > I'm quite pleased with the way it's worked out, but you were intending > that the 64-bit arches should get along with 32-bit counts? Maybe. That seems reasonsable for file pages. For the ZERO_PAGE the count can do whatever it wants, because we'd never free them up. - 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/