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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:26:39 -0400
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/40] autonuma: define _PAGE_NUMA_PTE and _PAGE_NUMA_PMD
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On 06/28/2012 08:55 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> +/*
> + * Cannot be set on pte. The fact it's in between _PAGE_FILE and
> + * _PAGE_PROTNONE avoids having to alter the swp entries.
> + */
> +#define _PAGE_NUMA_PTE	_PAGE_PSE
> +/*
> + * Cannot be set on pmd, if transparent hugepages will be swapped out
> + * the swap entry offset must start above it.
> + */
> +#define _PAGE_NUMA_PMD	_PAGE_UNUSED2

Those comments only tell us what the flags can NOT be
used for, not what they are actually used for.

That needs to be fixed.

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