Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

From: Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 12:19:08 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:07:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > I thought that last page was intentionally left invalid?
>
> It was. But I thought it made sense to use, as it's the only really
> "special" page.

  In couple of occasions I have caught myself from pre-decrementing
  a char pointer which "just happened" to be NULL.

  Please keep the last page, as well as a few of the first pages as
  NULL-pointer poisons.

> But yes, we should decide on this quickly - it's easy to change right now,
> but..
>
> Linus

/Matti Aarnio
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