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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:27:29 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [v2.6.26] what's brewing in x86.git for v2.6.26
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* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:

> >  Does it really really really need to consume one of our few remaining page
> >  flags?  We'll be in a mess when we run out.
> 
> Actually it doesn't. I attach a patch which gets rid of the page flag, 
> and we rely instead on the PTE flag for page-trackedness.
[...]
> Ingo, will you take this for some additional testing?

thanks Vegard, i've applied it - looks good to me too.

	Ingo