Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mtd: kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/pat.c:279! | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:04:32 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 09:56 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > So it should either be start=0xfffffffffffff000 end=0xffffffffffffffff > > or it should be start=0xfffffffffffff000 len=0x1000. > > I would strongly object to the former; that kind of inclusive ranges > breed a whole class of bugs by themselves.
Another alternative that avoids overflow issues is to use a PFN rather than a byte address.
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