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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:23:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 18pre7aa1 pagetable corroops
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> 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.

No, not equivalent, see other mail.  Do add BUG()s to mine if you like,
but they've not served well so far, and are not very helpful that early:
more a sign of insecurity.

Hugh

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