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Date:   Sun, 16 Feb 2020 08:22:30 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK
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On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 10:18:30AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> These patches convert several architectures to use page table folding and
> remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK along with include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h.
> 
> The changes are mostly about mechanical replacement of pgd accessors with p4d
> ones and the addition of higher levels to page table traversals.
> 
> All the patches were sent separately to the respective arch lists and
> maintainers hence the "v2" prefix.

You fail to explain why this change which adds 488 additional lines of
code is desirable.

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