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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Hi Christoph,

On 12/8/05, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> One way to work around that would be to detect kmalloced pages and use
> a slowpath for that.  The major issues with that is that we don't have a
> reliable way to detect if a given struct page comes from the slab allocator
> or not.

Why doesn't PageSlab work for you?

                                                          Pekka