Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm: move_page_tables{,_up}



On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

Provide functions for moving page tables upwards.

Could you make this more general so that it allows arbitrary page table
pages moving? That would be useful for Mel's memory defragmentation since
it increases the types of pages that can be moved.
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