Re: IA64 non-contiguous memory space bugs

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:39:35PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:13:59 +1100
> 
> > Quite some time ago, I found (by inspection) an ia64 specific bug
> > related to its non-contiguous user address space.  I've never done
> > anything about it, because I don't have an ia64 to test on - but
> > somebody should fix it.  Recently I've spotted another possible bug,
> > also by inspection - I don't know enough about ia64 to tell if it's a
> > real problem or not.
> 
> Good catch David, I'll need to add similar checks on sparc64 as
> we have a 64-bit virtual address space hole on several processors
> there.

Ok, that patch adds all the checks in generic code anyway, so all you
should need for sparc64 is an appropriate REGION_MAX() macro.

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