Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:19:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix |
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> if a !PAE x86 kernel is booted on a 32-bit system with more than > 4GB of RAM, then we call memory_present() with a start/end that > goes outside the scope of MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.
Well okay this fixes it but is this the right fix? The arch should not call memory_present() with an invalid pfn.
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