Re: unify pagetable accessors patch causes double fault II

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Mon Jan 14 2008 - 14:53:21 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
would be nice to have some debugging apparatus for bugs like this. Perhaps artificially add a large pfn, then convert/unconvert, then subtract it and expect the whole transformation to be an identity mapping? This way we could simulate most of the effects of >4GB RAM, right?

Yeah, good idea. I'll code something up to run at pagetable init time or something.

J

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