linux-kernel - Re: [Bug Fix]: Do 32-bit table calculations in pre-processor

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Message-ID: <4A4E8741.7030806@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:33:37 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	lkml@...ethan.org
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug Fix]: Do 32-bit table calculations in pre-processor

Michael S. Zick wrote:
>>>
>> The CPUID flags, in particular the pse flag.
>>
> 
> I haven't touch anything that would have changed that -
> so this should be representative (the *&^*% datasheet says yes to pse also)
> 

Actually, come to think of it, we don't generate PSE page tables
initially -- we only later go in and reclaim the page tables if we
switch to PSE (and $DEITY knows if we're doing it correctly...)

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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