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. >
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. J - 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/