Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: Who owns those locks ? | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:05:52 -0600 |
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 2:03 am, Zoltan Menyhart wrote: > - You keep my code, it is correct for a memory size up to 16 Tbytes.
Many if not most large machines have sparse address spaces, so you may have memory at an address that will cause a problem even if the actual amount of memory is much smaller.
The main point is that I wouldn't want a time bomb that will silently fail when somebody happens to boot on such a machine. Whether that's avoided by a "miraculous" bit, throwing away problem pages at boot-time, avoiding task allocation at specific addresses, etc., is secondary. - 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/
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