Re: Kernel Panic during memcpy_toio to PCI card

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 20:15:11 EST

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On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 23:29, Dave Jones wrote:
> memcpy_toio() in 2.4 is still using memcpy() which could use prefetch()
> if you compile for certain processors. Prefetching io space could do
> all sorts of nasties.
>

If so that really wants fixing ASAP ie for 2.4.20

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