Re: 2.2.9 oops

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 27 May 1999 21:54:59 +0100 (GMT)


On Thu, 27 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> My understanding was that current is always PAGE aligned, which means
> that on an ix86 based system, it can only be guaranteed to be 4k
> aligned, not 8k as per your comment.

Take a look at include/asm-i386/current.h.

> > It certainly isn't ever 0x1, anyway.
>
> It's possible that such a value could occur as a result of somebody
> making a false assumption somewhere...perhaps an assumption similar to
> the above?

How is that possible?

Tim.
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