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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Am??rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ARCH=um segfault on x86-64.
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:35:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090306143543.GA6983@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090306111834.GC8991@hack.private>

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:18:34PM +0800, Am??rico Wang wrote:
> It does work well x86_64, but my question is that whether this will
> break i386 or not, since before, CONFIG_3_LEVEL_PGTABLES depends on
> EXPERIMENTAL on i386, this patch removes it.

As long as CONFIG_3_LEVEL_PGTABLES is off on 32-bit, it should be fine.

It did work, last I checked, but 3-level page tables on 32-bit is a
very rarely used combination, and not useful.

				Jeff

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Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-06  6:42 [PATCH] Fix ARCH=um segfault on x86-64 Rob Landley
2009-03-06  8:48 ` Américo Wang
2009-03-06  9:50   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-03-06  9:51     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-03-06 11:18       ` Américo Wang
2009-03-06 14:35         ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2009-03-06 22:22           ` Rob Landley
2009-03-10 14:29           ` Américo Wang
2009-03-06 22:20     ` Rob Landley

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