From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
dwmw2@infradead.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: mtd: kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:279!
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 09:56:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <504CCA31.2000003@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzeKcV5hROLJE31dNi3SEs+s6o0LL=96Kh8QGHPx=aZnA@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/08/2012 12:57 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ack.
>
> Anyway, that means that the BUG_ON() is likely bogus, but so is the
> whole calling convention.
>
> The 4kB range starting at 0xfffffffffffff000 sounds like a *valid*
> range, but that requires that we fix the calling convention to not
> have that "end" (exclusive) thing. It should either be "end"
> (inclusive), or just "len".
>
On x86, it is definitely NOT a valid range. There is no physical
addresses there, and there will never be any.
> So it should either be start=0xfffffffffffff000 end=0xffffffffffffffff
> or it should be start=0xfffffffffffff000 len=0x1000.
I would strongly object to the former; that kind of inclusive ranges
breed a whole class of bugs by themselves.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-29 8:48 mtd: kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:279! Sasha Levin
2012-07-30 11:00 ` Sasha Levin
2012-09-07 16:55 ` Sasha Levin
2012-09-07 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-07 22:42 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-09-07 23:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-07 23:54 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-09-08 19:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-09 14:56 ` Suresh Siddha
2012-09-09 15:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-09 17:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-12 10:50 ` Sasha Levin
2012-09-12 10:56 ` Sasha Levin
2012-09-28 9:00 ` Sasha Levin
2012-09-28 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-28 18:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-09-28 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-28 19:44 ` Sasha Levin
2012-09-28 19:04 ` David Woodhouse
2012-09-28 19:15 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-09-28 19:18 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-09-29 16:11 ` David Woodhouse
2012-09-29 16:34 ` David Woodhouse
2012-09-09 16:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-09-09 19:04 ` David Woodhouse
2012-09-09 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-10 5:17 ` Sasha Levin
2012-09-08 8:10 ` Sasha Levin
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