From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:42:46 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807141142121.3305@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871w1wz546.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> When that happens then it will be either unmapped (and fault anyways)
> or the kernel has to be changed to 5 level page tables first and then
> surely the poison value could change too.
You're still ignoring the other point: ffffc.. is much _less_ visually
obvious than dead0...
Linus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 14:48 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-14 15:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-14 15:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-14 15:53 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-14 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-14 16:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-14 16:08 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-14 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-14 16:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-14 18:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-14 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-14 19:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-14 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-14 19:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-14 18:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-14 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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