Re: x86-64: memset()/memcpy() not fully standards compliant

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 06.01.12 at 21:40, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:04:30 GMT, Jan Beulich said:
>> Forever these two functions have been limited to deal with at most 4G
>> at a time. While I cannot point out an in-tree user that would require
>> larger sizes, it is now the second time that within our Xen kernel we got
>> bitten by that limitation.
> 
> Wow.  Second time?  What the heck is the Xen kernel *doing* that it's
> trying to do over 4G in a single memset/memcpy?

Please see my other reply to Andi for what data structures are
affected here (and starting at what total memory sizes).

Jan

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