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From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:27:39PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Yes, this is just a "neatening" patch to use a more appropriate
> instruction. There would have to be a lot of work to allow kernels to be
> bigger than 2Gb,

And yet we're bloating up, right into that limit... ;-\

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    Boris.

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