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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:38:41 -0800
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Subject: Re: Word-at-a-time dcache name accesses (was Re: .. anybody know
 of any filesystems that depend on the exact VFS 'namehash' implementation?)
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On 03/02/2012 03:46 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Comments?
> 

My biggest concern is what happens when this happens to be at the end of
mapped kernel memory and we overrun the page?

	-hpa