From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:11:49 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix build errors with strict MM checking
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:19:12PM +0100, Martin Habets wrote:
> I understand it slows down things a lot. Do you mean it has no
> run-time value when debugging suspected MM problems? I do get
> different output: unhandled paging request with strict MM checking
> versus a DMA error without.
> Now for the new patch attempt:
> Turning on STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS in include/asm/page.h causes some
> build errors for sparc32. This patch against 2.6.21 fixes these.

Unhandled paging request vs. DMA errors? This sounds ominous. What
CPU type?


-- wli