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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:04:08 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 00/11] split page table lock for PMD tables
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* Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > What must arch maintainers do to enable it?  Have you any particular 
> > suggestions, warnings etc to make their lives easier?
> 
> The last patch is a good illustration what need to be done. It's very 
> straight forward, I don't see any pitfalls.

Might make sense to stick that somewhere into Documentation/mm/, to make 
arch maintainers feel all warm and fuzzy if they look into enabling this 
feature on their architecture.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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