Re: [patch] mm: sparsemem memory_present() memory corruption fix

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I wonder why this did not show up earlier in testing? Running a kernel 
> that cannot access all of memory is unusual I guess.

i guess people saw the "you are not running a PAE kernel" warning and 
went to a PAE kernel which didnt have this issue.

OTOH, quite a few testers consciously use non-PAE kernels on 4GB 
systems, so i'd not be surprised if this solved a few mystery 
regressions we have.

	Ingo
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