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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
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On 09/08/2012 01:09 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Sasha, since you can apparently reproduce it, can you replace the
> "BUG_ON()" with just a
> 
>  if (start >= end) {
>     printf("bogus range %llx - %llx\n", start, end);
>     return -EINVAL;
>   }

Replacing it gives me the following:

[   36.231736] bogus range fffffffffffff000 - 0


Thanks,
Sasha