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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Breno" <brenosp@brasilsec.com.br>
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Subject: Re: pte_offset  and pte_offset_map
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"Breno" <brenosp@brasilsec.com.br> wrote:
>
> pte_offset() in 2.4 is the same as pte_offset_map in 2.6 ?

Yes.

> What´s PageCompound bit flag ?

It indicates that the page is part of a "higher order" allocation: It was
obtained via a 2, 4, 8...  page allocation.