"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 03/02/2012 03:46 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> Comments? >> > > My biggest concern is what happens when this happens to be at the end of > mapped kernel memory and we overrun the page? A long time ago (AMD K7ish) we had hardware bugs to work around in this area. Overlapping into some PCI hole MMIO areas could cause obscure hangs. That is why I was always careful to not do that in any x86 library code. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
