On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:27:56AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > THP code does PTE page allocation along with large page request and deposit > them > for later use. This is to ensure that we won't have any failures when we split > hugepages to regular pages. > > On powerpc we want to use the deposited PTE page for storing hash pte slot and > secondary bit information for the HPTEs. We use the second half > of the pmd table to save the deposted PTE page.
The previous patch accesses data in that second half of the PMD table,
so this patch should go before it.
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