Re: [PATCH] x86: fix virt_addr_valid() with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y

[Jiri Slaby]

On 10/01/2008 01:15 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> x86_64 is screwed in the same way, isn't it?
> 
> Hm. I didn't see any #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL in the x86_64 code,
> so I assumed it wasn't. But it seems that you are right (because the
> checks, or at least some kind of checks, are _always_ performed on
> x86_64 regardless of the CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL setting). Why doesn't
> the checking in x86_64 code depend on DEBUG_VIRTUAL?

Yeah, it does: VIRTUAL_BUG_ON depends on it...

x86_64 just distinguish pointer to kernel image addresses (which are mapped only
up to kernel image size from phys_base physical address) and whole physical
memory map at another virtual address.
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