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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Making compound pages mandatory
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Do you have any objection to compound pages being made mandatory, even without
> HUGETLB support?
> 

Andrea wants to do that, purely from a code coverage point of view.  But it
does add a little extra overhead.

For what reason do you propose this?