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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:27:57 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 18pre7aa1 pagetable corroops
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:55:38PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> clear_pagetable corrupts memory and oopses when CONFIG_HIGHMEM,
> but the pagetable has been allocated from low memory.

right, thanks. BTW, I kept the other fixmap_init code beause of the many
more BUG() checks (like the PTRS_PER_PMD checks with PAE) and because
it is equivalent after all.

Andrea
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