linux-kernel - Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits

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Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:52:02 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Pierre Beck <mail@...rre-beck.de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:10:47PM +0200, Pierre Beck wrote:
> But what about other folks who upgrade their PC? They won't know what
> hit them when their new PC crawls because disk is trashed.

I don't know, maybe backup their data, install a nice 64-bit Linux
distro of their liking along with a 64-bit kernel which is several
magnitudes more tested than its 32-bit counterpart, copy their data back
and forget 32-bit ever existed...

:-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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