Re: [PATCH 01/15] mm: poison struct page for ptlock

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> IOW we're assuming that no 32-bit architectures will obtain pagetables from
> slab?

I thought ARM does?

The ARM page tables are something strange (I think they have 1024-byte 
page tables and 4kB pages or something like that?). So they'll not only 
obtain the page tables from slab, they have four of them per page.

		Linus
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