Re: [PATCH] [3/4] i386: Fix overflow in e820_all_mapped

[Linus Torvalds]

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.

		Linus
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