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Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6

To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 17:19:54 +0100
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, nico@cam.org, davem@redhat.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
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Hi,

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:18:49AM -0700, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> Thought I would send out a quick note about a change I put into test6.
> Basically, to make it easier to implement DISCONTIGMEM systems, the
> concepts of page/mem_map number/index has been killed from the generic
> (non architecture specific) parts of the kernel.

Excellent, this will make it _tons_ easier for me to create new zones
of mem_map arrays on the fly to allow us to create struct pages for
PCI IO-aperture memory (necessary for kiobuf mappings of IO memory).

Thanks!

--Stephen
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