linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

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Date:	Sat, 5 May 2007 09:36:32 +0200
From:	Gregoire Favre <Gregoire.Favre@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Jon Burgess <jburgess777@...glemail.com>, linux-dvb@...uxtv.org,
	v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org,
	Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:35:32AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > Looks like you hit:
> > 	BUG_ON(flags & ~(GFP_DMA | GFP_LEVEL_MASK | __GFP_NO_GROW));
> > 
> > I guess this was due to the vmalloc_32() change now passing in
> > GFP_DMA32. Looks like that could be a problem with the
> > x86_64-mm-vmalloc-32 patch. Andi?
> 
> Does this patch help?

Hello,

now I am quiete certain the bug is gone with that patch : no single
error since Wed :-)

I hope they goes in 2.6.21.2.

Have a great week,
-- 
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