[PATCH] resurrect CONFIG_HIGHPTE
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.
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