On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Becky Bruce <bec...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Because there was no bootmem allocation in the normal case - the non-highmem > version stores data structure in the huge page itself. This is perfectly > fine as long > as you have a mapping. Since this isn't true for HIGHMEM pages, I allocate > bootmem to store the early data structure that stores information about the > hugepage (this happens in arch-specific code in alloc_bootmem_huge_page). I would put this text in a comment in the code. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev