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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	alan@redhat.com, Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com, vvs@sw.ru,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mark i2o config broken on 64-bit platforms.
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:18:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24339.1215620298@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080709154649.57f66bb9@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> 64bit kernel 32bit user space should be fine,

There's a place I pointed out in an earlier email where it appears a 64-bit
kernel can screw up, even with a 32-bit userspace.  It allocates a piece of
RAM with kmalloc(), takes the address of it, passes that through
virt_to_bus(), discards the upper 32-bits from the result and posts it in an
I2O message, presumably to the device.  That would appear likely to go kaboom
on a 64-bit system with more than 4GB of RAM.

If the device doesn't use that address, then why pass it at all?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09 11:35 [PATCH] Mark i2o config broken on 64-bit platforms David Howells
2008-07-09 11:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-09 12:07   ` David Howells
2008-07-09 13:47   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-07-09 14:15     ` David Howells
2008-07-09 15:08       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-09 15:49       ` Alan Cox
2008-07-09 15:49         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-09 16:42         ` David Howells
2008-07-09 19:06         ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-07-09 19:13           ` James Bottomley
2008-07-09 19:22             ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-07-09 19:59               ` James Bottomley
2008-07-09 20:06                 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-07-10 11:13           ` Alan Cox
2008-07-10 12:12             ` David Howells
2008-07-10 14:53               ` Alan Cox
2008-07-10 14:53                 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-10 15:23               ` Alan Cox
2008-07-09 18:49       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2008-07-10 11:45         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-09 14:46   ` Alan Cox
2008-07-09 16:18     ` David Howells [this message]
2008-07-09 14:47 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-09 14:47   ` Alan Cox
2008-07-09 15:46   ` Jeff Garzik

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