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From: Christian Hinkelbein <hinkelbein@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:17:46 +0000
Subject: Re: pages already locked on ia64
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David Mosberger schrieb:

>>>>>>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:22:23 +0100, Christian Hinkelbein <hinkelbein@ti.uni-mannheim.de> said:
> 
>   Christian> On ia32 i succesfully do a lock_page() on every page
>   Christian> returned by get_user_pages(), lateron i do unlock_page().
>   Christian> On ia64 sometimes (on ia32 seemingly never) the first
>   Christian> page is already locked, just after malloc().  For a quick
>   Christian> hack ......
> 
> Umh, what page-size did you use?
> 
> In any case, a minimal test-program that reproduces the problem would
> probably help you get an answer much faster.

Uuuh, thanks for the hint. It was the bigger page-size (16k) that 
triggered an old bug in my driver.

    christian