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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [patch] vmalloc_to_page() backport for 2.4
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Similarly the PAE/non-PAE thing is a red herring. Given that even basic
> data types change size on pae no module is going to be magically pae/non-pae
> clean if its binary only.

Few modules take an interest in ptes, that's as it should be, and so
few modules build to different binaries with CONFIX_X86_PAE off or on
(modulo module versions).  I love vmalloc_to_page because it takes pte
dependence out of a group of modules which really had no interest in
ptes in the first place.  Less false grep hits when searching the tree!

Hugh

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