From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Tigran Aivazian <Tigran.Aivazian@veritas.com>,
kraxel@bytesex.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] vmalloc_to_page() backport for 2.4
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:30:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319163041.B17735@fenrus.demon.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16lVkh-0000oW-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0203141436150.1153-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:46:39PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > Similarly the PAE/non-PAE thing is a red herring. Given that even basic
> > data types change size on pae no module is going to be magically pae/non-pae
> > clean if its binary only.
>
> Few modules take an interest in ptes, that's as it should be, and so
> few modules build to different binaries with CONFIX_X86_PAE off or on
> (modulo module versions).
Well dma_addr_t and some others also change size..... struct page also
changes quite a bit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-19 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-13 16:51 Gerd Knorr
2002-03-13 18:50 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-13 19:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-14 12:30 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-14 12:33 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-14 13:13 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-14 13:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-14 14:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-03-19 16:30 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2002-03-19 23:40 ` Hugh Dickins
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