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

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Message-ID: <506A10E4.80905@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:53:40 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Pierre Beck <mail@...rre-beck.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits

On 10/01/2012 02:52 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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...
> 

It is very sad, though, that there are still drivers which don't work
correctly in compat mode.  Please report bugs on those -- that is just
not acceptable.

Unfortunately few distros provide 64-bit kernels for their 32-bit
distros, which acerbates the problem.

	-hpa

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