Bill Irwin wrote: >> Brain dump before crashing for the night: >> The patch refuses to clobber already-present pagetable entries of >> whatever origin. There are pagetables prior to this setup covering the >> address range just above PAGE_OFFSET. If this theory is correct, you >> should only be able to go a few MB above PAGE_OFFSET before encountering >> unreadable kernel memory. IIRC those pagetables are a statically >> allocated array in assembly; altering that array to set supervisor bits >> may resolve it, though it may also be freed as initmem.
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:28:46AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > I think this should be fixed now. Eric made all those writes > unconditional (to fix a problem with PSE superpages not being created). > The patch is in Andi's queue. It needs verification with the testcase from this thread. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
