Andrea,
As I pointed out before, I don't think rawio is the only case which
breaks.
I will give you one example of the type of cases that I am talking about.
In drivers/char/bttv.c, VIDIOCSFBUF ioctl seems to be setting the "vidadr"
to a kernel virtual address from the physical address present in the
user's pte. This will not work for bigmem pages.
Now, you might claim that this driver is never used on ia32, or analyze
the way "vidadr" is used and show that the kernel never access the
kernel v/a stored in "vidadr". What I am pointing out is that this kind
of analysis needs to be made for all drivers (that uses macros that are
dependent on PAGE_OFFSET) ... unless you can claim that you have already
done this analysis ...
Kanoj
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