Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Oct 01 2012 - 20:09:37 EST


On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:53:40PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It is very sad, though, that there are still drivers which don't work
> correctly in compat mode. Please report bugs on those -- that is just
> not acceptable.
>
> Unfortunately few distros provide 64-bit kernels for their 32-bit
> distros, which acerbates the problem.

Yes, the other way 'round, 32-bit userspace on 64-bit kernels should
work. And fixed if not.

Thanks.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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