Re: [PATCH] Compound page overhaul

[David Howells]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>:
> ugh, sorry, I'd forgotten that !MMU needs to use the fields inside
> pages[1].  It seems that the !MMU requirement is in that case quite
> dissimilar from what compound pages are supposed to do.  Perhaps we should
> just forget the whole thing and stick with the current design approach?

Nonono... you misunderstand. Compound-pages support uses fields from page[1]
to store extra data. It's nothing at all to do with MMU vs !MMU.

David
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