Re: [RFC] asm-generic/tlb: stub out pmd_free_tlb() if __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 01:38:34PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And now I've said pgd/pud/p4d/pmd so many times that I've confused
> myself and think I'm wrong again, and I think that historically -
> originally - we always had a pgd, and then the pmd didn't exist
> because it was folded into it. That makes sense from a x86 naming
> standpoint. Then x86 _did_ get a pmd, and then we added more levels in
> between, and other architectures did things differently.

Oh my goodness.  Thank you for writing all this out and finally getting
to this point.  I was reading the whole thing thinking "This is different
from what I remember" and then you got here.  This explains so much about
how our MM does/doesn't work, and it's not just me that's confused ;-)

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