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Nick Piggin authored
Rename clear_page_tables to clear_page_range. clear_page_range takes byte ranges, and aggressively frees page table pages. Maybe useful to control page table memory consumption on 4-level architectures (and even 3 level ones). Possible downsides are: - flush_tlb_pgtables gets called more often (only a problem for sparc64 AFAIKS). - the opportunistic "expand to fill PGDIR_SIZE hole" logic that ensures something actually gets done under the old system is still in place. This could sometimes make unmapping small regions more inefficient. There are some other solutions to look at if this is the case though. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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