Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Nov 2002 02:15:27 +0000 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [parisc-linux] Untested port of parisc_device to generic device interface |
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On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:01:29PM -0500, J.E.J. Bottomley wrote: > Actually, so would I. I can suspect why there might exist machines like this > (say the consistent attribute is settable at the pgd level)
well, there's a limited amount of space available for consistent mappings on some machines. it's basically the same as the vmalloc space. i think the best way to handle this is simply to fail to initialise if you can't get the consistent memory you need.
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