On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:36:23PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/13/2015 11:14 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >     pgd_t * pgd;
> >     atomic_t mm_users;                      /* How many users with user 
> > space? */
> >     atomic_t mm_count;                      /* How many references to 
> > "struct mm_struct" (users count as 1) */
> > -   atomic_long_t nr_ptes;                  /* Page table pages */
> > +   atomic_long_t nr_pgtables;              /* Page table pages */
> >     int map_count;                          /* number of VMAs */
> 
> One more crazy idea...
> 
> There are 2^9 possible pud pages, 2^18 pmd pages and 2^27 pte pages.
> That's only 54 bits (technically minus one bit each because the upper
> half of the address space is for the kernel).

Does this math make sense for all architecures? IA64? Power?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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