Re: [PATCH] x86: Extend test_and_set_bit() test_and_clean_bit() to64 bits in X86_64

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Pretty much all the bit ops and a few other operations currently have
> 2/4GB limits on x86-64. I don't think that's going to change.
> 
> In the kernel nothing is ever that big continuously anyways.
> 

Uhm, that *is* the problem at hand... specifically the bootmem map on
multi-terabyte systems.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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