Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: x86-64: memset()/memcpy() not fully standards compliant | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:40:19 -0500 |
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:04:30 GMT, Jan Beulich said: > Forever these two functions have been limited to deal with at most 4G > at a time. While I cannot point out an in-tree user that would require > larger sizes, it is now the second time that within our Xen kernel we got > bitten by that limitation.
Wow. Second time? What the heck is the Xen kernel *doing* that it's trying to do over 4G in a single memset/memcpy? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |