Re: IA64 non-contiguous memory space bugs

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 19:37:23 EST


From: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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