Re: [PATCH -V5 06/25] powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage

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On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:27:44AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We allocate one page for the last level of linux page table. With THP and
> large page size of 16MB, that would mean we are wasting large part
> of that page. To map 16MB area, we only need a PTE space of 2K with 64K
> page size. This patch reduce the space wastage by sharing the page
> allocated for the last level of linux page table with multiple pmd
> entries. We call these smaller chunks PTE page fragments and allocated
> page, PTE page.

This is not compiling for me:

arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_hash64.c:118:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'reset_page_mapcount'

And similar.

cheers

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