Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Further shrink ifdef sections in fault.c

From: Harvey Harrison
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 04:06:00 EST


On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 02:41 +0200, Henry Nestler wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> + if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END))
> >> + return -1;
> >
> > ah, this explains the weird chunk in your other patch.
>
> Why this is not in x86_32?
>
> Please see my other mail "x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root
> for Linux 2.6"
>

Hmm, no idea why it wasn't in the 32-bit version. Looks like something
fixed in the 64 bit versions but not 32-bit.

See:

commit 3b9ba4d5e23fcab24dd4d2e46dce11f5863869b4
commit f95190b28daa1bebf78ab5ec4129d01a223982c5


Cheers,

Harvey

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