From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Pierre Beck <mail@pierre-beck.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:00:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506A1279.6030309@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121001215936.GC19126@liondog.tnic>
On 10/01/2012 02:59 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:53:40PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It is very sad, though, that there are still drivers which don't work
>> correctly in compat mode. Please report bugs on those -- that is just
>> not acceptable.
>>
>> Unfortunately few distros provide 64-bit kernels for their 32-bit
>> distros, which acerbates the problem.
>
> Yes, the other way 'round, 32-bit userspace on 64-bit kernels should
> work. And fixed if not.
>
That is the same way around (32-bit kernel, 64-bit userspace obviously
is a nonstarter.)
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-01 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-30 9:38 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits Pierre Beck
2012-09-30 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-01 21:10 ` Pierre Beck
2012-10-01 21:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-01 21:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-01 21:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-10-01 22:00 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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