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On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 14:06 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Look at patches http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/248920/ and followup,
> he basically walks the page tables here in a slightly different way than
> Paul does in H_ENTER. It's more like gup_fast. It will need to handle
> concurrent split/collapse etc... as well which it doesn't right now.
> 
> I'm considering merging Alexei stuff first (provided I don't find major
> problems with it), then you can provide a new THP series on top of it.

Ok, for now ignore Alexey stuff, there's enough issues in it that I can't
quite merge it yet. Just handle my other comments.

Cheers,
Ben.