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wli@holomorphy.com wrote:
> 
> Perhaps understandably so, I'd like to take a hands-on role in
> guiding this patch into a form suitable for the mainline kernel.

The hashing changes will become the topmost (ie: last-applied) diff 
for that reason...


> This looks like a change of invariants that could generate a fair
> amount of audit work. Ugh...

In a better world, the VM wouldn't know anything at all about
these "buffer" thingies.

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