From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix atomic_t overflow in vm
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:37:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080514223726.6e09f049@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080514213302.5631.54560.stgit@core>
On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:33:03 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
>
> The atomic_t type is 32bit but a 64bit system can have more than 2^32
> pages of virtual address space available. Without this we overflow on
> ludicrously large mappings
> ---
Umm need to adjust the template: Add
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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2008-05-14 21:33 [PATCH] mm: Fix atomic_t overflow in vm Alan Cox
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