Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:14:32 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pae-2.4.3-C3 |
| |
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > the problem is that redzoning is enabled unconditionally, and SLAB has no > > information about how crutial alignment is in the case of any particular > > SLAB cache. The CPU generates a general protection fault if in PAE mode a > > non-16-byte aligned pgd is loaded into %cr3. > > How about just fixing the debug code to align things? Sure it wastes a > bit of memory, but debug code is like that.
redzoning also catches code which assumes specific alignment.
Ingo
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |