>>>>> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:56:31 -0700, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> said: Tony> This patch was accepted into 2.5.55, attributed to "davej@uk". Tony> This code will prefetch from beyond the end of the page table Tony> being cleared ... which is clearly a bad thing if the page Tony> table in question is allocated from the last page of memory Tony> (or precedes a hole on a discontig mem system). Different arches behave differently, though. In the case of ia64, it'a always safe to prefetch (even with lfetch.fault). --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Oct 24 18:08:29 2003
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