Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] PPC Lockup (ati-pcigart-branch)

From: Jeff Hartmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:44:52 -0700

Dan Malek wrote:

> Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
>> No, that's not the problem, pagelist is struct page ** :-/ (and pagelist is
>> allocated)
>
>
> Then, what the heck were you trying to print out with that
> piece of code, and who further down the food chain uses
> the page struct?
>
>
> 	-- Dan

Some VM code later on uses the page struct to return the correct value
from vma_nopage.  This code supports userland mappings, not just kernel
mappings.  We could of course just use phys_to_page/virt_to_page in the
vma_nopage code, but struct page works just fine.

-Jeff

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