From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:39:35 +0000 Subject: Re: IA64 non-contiguous memory space bugs Message-Id: <20060221.163935.32626284.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <20060222001359.GA23574@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060222001359.GA23574@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: david@gibson.dropbear.id.au Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: David Gibson Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:13:59 +1100 > Quite some time ago, I found (by inspection) an ia64 specific bug > related to its non-contiguous user address space. I've never done > anything about it, because I don't have an ia64 to test on - but > somebody should fix it. Recently I've spotted another possible bug, > also by inspection - I don't know enough about ia64 to tell if it's a > real problem or not. Good catch David, I'll need to add similar checks on sparc64 as we have a 64-bit virtual address space hole on several processors there.