* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Done.  Looks like you want empty_zero_page write protected too.  That 
> seems like a fine idea to me unless something really wants to do atomic 
> 64-bit reads on it.

Thanks, I added this set (minus the 3/5, which I already have) to the
virt-2.6 tree.

> The -1 is quite useless when you're going to shift  >> 12 anyways to get 
> a frame number to index into mem_map, which is why they are not there.  
> Plus, it just seems scary if you got it wrong - let's say you had a not 
> present page - not that you could, but now you are freeing a misaligned 
> address in the _previous_ page.  I really don't like that -1 at all.  I 
> will clean it up, but it does certainly deserve another patch.

Heh, that's exactly what I was concerned with from the patch (being on
the wrong page).  Thanks for clearing up my confusion.


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