From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262841AbVF3RfG (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:35:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262842AbVF3RfG (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:35:06 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:13193 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262841AbVF3RfB (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:35:01 -0400 Subject: RE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific) From: Arjan van de Ven To: Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com Cc: ak@suse.de, riel@redhat.com, andrea@suse.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:34:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1120152893.3181.74.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 3.7 (+++) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 2.63 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (3.7 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 1.1 RCVD_IN_DSBL RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org [] 2.5 RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK RBL: Sent directly from dynamic IP address [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL: SORBS: sender is listed in SORBS [80.57.133.107 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:56 -0500, Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > I only fixed it for x86-64 correct. Does it work for you on x86-64? > > > > If yes then the changes could be brought over. > > > > What do you all need is for anyways? > > > > -Andi > > We need this because the NVidia driver uses change_page_attr() to make > pages non-cachable, which is causing systems to spontaneously reboot > when it gets a page that's in the first 8MB of memory. > that's not a linux problem since there isn't really a linux driver that does this ;)