From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262056AbTJAJdw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 05:33:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262062AbTJAJdw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 05:33:52 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:51590 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262056AbTJAJdv (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 05:33:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:33:29 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch Message-ID: <20031001093329.GA2649@mail.shareable.org> References: <20031001073132.GK1131@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > See recent message from me. All you need is a check "address >= > > TASK_SIZE", which is thread already at the start of do_page_fault. > > What about the 4G+4G split? Whoever is looking after the 4G+4G patch can deal with it, presumably. It'll be the same condition ad 4G+4G uses to decide if it's an access to userspace (needing a search of the vma list), or not. -- Jamie