Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:17:14 +1100 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: IA64 non-contiguous memory space bugs |
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:39:35PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:13:59 +1100 > > > Quite some time ago, I found (by inspection) an ia64 specific bug > > related to its non-contiguous user address space. I've never done > > anything about it, because I don't have an ia64 to test on - but > > somebody should fix it. Recently I've spotted another possible bug, > > also by inspection - I don't know enough about ia64 to tell if it's a > > real problem or not. > > Good catch David, I'll need to add similar checks on sparc64 as > we have a 64-bit virtual address space hole on several processors > there.
Ok, that patch adds all the checks in generic code anyway, so all you should need for sparc64 is an appropriate REGION_MAX() macro.
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