From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/10] alternate 4-level page tables patches From: Nick Piggin In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:04:46 +1100 Message-Id: <1103601886.5121.40.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andi Kleen , Linux Memory Management , Andrew Morton List-ID: On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 19:56 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Color me convinced. > > Nick, can you see if such a patch is possible? I'll test ppc64 still > working.. > Yep, I'm beginning to think it is the way to go as well: we'll have all the generic code and some key architectures compiling with the struct type checking... and the 4-level fallback header will keep arch maintainers from being inconvenienced while spitting out enough warnings that they'll get on to fixing it. I'll take a look shortly. Nick -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org