From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Henry Nestler <henry-20071123@arcor.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Further shrink ifdef sections in fault.c
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:05:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208937905.5727.29.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480E859D.80105@arcor.de>
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 02:41 +0200, Henry Nestler wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> + if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END))
> >> + return -1;
> >
> > ah, this explains the weird chunk in your other patch.
>
> Why this is not in x86_32?
>
> Please see my other mail "x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root
> for Linux 2.6"
>
Hmm, no idea why it wasn't in the 32-bit version. Looks like something
fixed in the 64 bit versions but not 32-bit.
See:
commit 3b9ba4d5e23fcab24dd4d2e46dce11f5863869b4
commit f95190b28daa1bebf78ab5ec4129d01a223982c5
Cheers,
Harvey
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2008-04-23 7:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: Further shrink ifdef sections in fault.c Henry Nestler
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2008-04-23 8:05 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-01-25 1:05 Harvey Harrison
2008-01-25 11:13 ` Ingo Molnar
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