From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
macro@linux-mips.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
eike-kernel@sf-tec.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:38:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C19ECF8.1090600@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C19EC57.3000409@goop.org>
On 06/17/2010 10:35 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I guess it would be possible to special-case ioremap to allow the
> creation of such mappings, but I don't know what kind of system-wide
> fallout would happen as a result. The consequences of something trying
> to extract a pfn from one of those ptes would be
>
...very bad, as it would result in truncated pfns and likely cause some
kind of corruption.
(oops, sent too early)
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-17 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-17 1:28 [BUG][PATCH 0/2 (v.2)] x86: ioremap() problem in X86_32 PAE Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17 1:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17 2:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-06-17 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-17 4:55 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17 6:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-17 6:21 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-17 9:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-17 9:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2010-06-17 13:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-18 0:32 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-18 0:22 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09 4:24 ` Simon Horman
2010-07-09 5:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-09 6:10 ` Simon Horman
2010-06-17 6:28 ` Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09 18:31 ` [tip:x86/mm] x86, pae: Fix handling of large physical addresses in ioremap tip-bot for Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-17 1:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: ioremap: fix normal ram range check Kenji Kaneshige
2010-07-09 18:31 ` [tip:x86/mm] x86, ioremap: Fix " tip-bot for Kenji Kaneshige
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-18 3:21 [BUG][PATCH 0/2 (v.3)] x86: ioremap() problem in X86_32 PAE Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-18 3:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: ioremap: fix wrong physical address handling Kenji Kaneshige
2010-06-18 11:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-06-21 1:40 ` Kenji Kaneshige
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