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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
	willy@w.ods.org, arjanv@redhat.com, hch@lst.de, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i486 emu in mainline?
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 23:03:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040527210346.GC997@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BS5V8-0006d6-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

Hi!

> >> It was intentional for speed purpose. The areas are checked once with
> >> verify_area() when we need to access memory, then data is copied directly
> >> from/to memory. I don't think there's any risk, but I can be wrong.
> > 
> > Which will break with 4G/4G.  You must use at least __get_user().
> 
> A 386 with a 4G/4G split, I'd like to see that.

I believe you could...

1) some 586 class machines do not know 486 opcodes

2) this is for rescue kernel. If you want to be able to rescue 64GB machine *and* rescue 486 too,
this+4G/4G is right choice ;-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-31 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-22 23:40 i486 emu in mainline? Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-23  0:20 ` Rene Rebe
2004-05-23  7:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23  8:44   ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23  9:13     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23  9:48       ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23  9:58         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 11:49         ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-23  9:20     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-23 17:11     ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-24  2:47       ` Herbert Xu
2004-05-27 21:03         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-05-23  8:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 11:08   ` Alan Cox
2004-05-23 11:57     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 13:15       ` Alan Cox
2004-05-24 15:17         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-24 17:41           ` Alan Cox
2004-05-25  9:36             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-25 13:48               ` Alan Cox
     [not found]   ` <20040523105130.GA588@samarkand.rivenstone.net>
2004-05-23 11:59     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-24  9:08       ` P
2004-05-23 15:18   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-23 21:14     ` Alan Cox
2004-05-24 12:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-05-25 17:21 ` Kronos
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-25 17:03 Albert Cahalan
2004-05-25 22:43 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-10 20:33 Nathanael Nerode

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