From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED] x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits.
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:50:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484940B5.6030307@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lk1iu2km.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> 43bits might be actally safer because of potential sign bugs.
>
> But of course it won't work anyways likely.
>
I thought about it, but I think we're pretty consistent about putting
pfns into unsigned types. But, yes, you're very marginal at that point.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-06 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-05 15:21 [PATCH] x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to match 64-bit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-05 15:34 ` Jan Beulich
2008-06-05 15:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-05 16:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-05 21:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-07 18:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-06 9:21 ` [PATCH UPDATED] x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-06 9:58 ` Jan Beulich
2008-06-06 13:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-06 13:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-06-10 10:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-10 13:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-13 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-06 1:40 ` [PATCH] x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to match 64-bit Andi Kleen
2008-06-06 7:14 ` Jan Beulich
2008-06-06 7:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-06 8:14 ` Jan Beulich
2008-06-06 8:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-07 18:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-06 4:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-06-06 8:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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