>>> Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> 28.04.06 07:39 >>>
>
>
>On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>> The 32bit version of e820_all_mapped() needs to use u64 to avoid
>> overflows on PAE systems. Pointed out by Jan Beulich
>
>I don't think that's true.
>
>It can't be called with 64-bit arguments anyway. If the base address
>doesn't fit in 32-bit, we'd be screwed in other places, afaik.
The arguments don't necessarily need to be u64, but (at least some of)
the calculations inside the function do. Otherwise, a region starting
below 4G and extending to or beyond 4G would not be considered
correctly.
Jan
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