Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751219AbVKJT5E (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:57:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751224AbVKJT5E (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:57:04 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:7902 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbVKJT5C (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:57:02 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:56:52 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Hugh Dickins , mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] mm: poison struct page for ptlock In-Reply-To: <20051110114950.03a5946b.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20051109181022.71c347d4.akpm@osdl.org> <20051109185645.39329151.akpm@osdl.org> <20051110120624.GB32672@elte.hu> <20051110045144.40751a42.akpm@osdl.org> <20051110114950.03a5946b.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 620 Lines: 19 On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > IOW we're assuming that no 32-bit architectures will obtain pagetables from > slab? I thought ARM does? The ARM page tables are something strange (I think they have 1024-byte page tables and 4kB pages or something like that?). So they'll not only obtain the page tables from slab, they have four of them per page. Linus - 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/