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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PPC64: lockfix for rtas error log
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> Isn't the global buffer used since it's in BSS, and as such, in low
> memory, guaranteed to be below 4GB? RTAS has limitations that restricts
> any passed-in buffers to be addressable as 32-bit real mode pointers, right?

The global buffer is still used within the spinlocked region for RTAS itself,
the patch just uses a local buffer and copies into it from the global one
before releasing the lock.

Ben.


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