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    [PATCH] resurrect CONFIG_HIGHPTE · 81e0a1a6
    Andrew Morton authored
    Bill Irwin's patch to fix up pte's in highmem.
    
    With CONFIG_HIGHPTE, the direct pte pointer in struct page becomes the
    64-bit physical address of the single pte which is mapping this page.
    
    If the page is not PageDirect then page->pte.chain points at a list of
    pte_chains, which each now contain an array of 64-bit physical
    addresses of the pte's which are mapping the page.
    
    The functions rmap_ptep_map() and rmap_ptep_unmap() are used for
    mapping and unmapping the page which backs the target pte.
    
    The patch touches all architectures (adding do-nothing compatibility
    macros and inlines).  It generally mangles lots of header files and may
    break non-ia32 compiles.  I've had it in testing since 2.5.31.
    81e0a1a6
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