Re: [PATCH 1/2] add helper for highmem checks

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/11/2013 09:32 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 02/09/2013 02:47 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 10:41:21AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > With this change, they definitely fix something because I even get X on
> > the box started. Previously, it would spit out the warning and wouldn't
> > start X with the login window. And my suspicion is that wdm (WINGs
> > display manager) I'm using, does /dev/mem accesses when it starts and it
> > obviously failed. Now not so much :-)
>
> That's crazy.  Didn't expect that at all.
>
> I guess X is happier getting an error than getting random pages back.
> I'm working on a set of patches now that should get it _working_ instead
> of just returning an error.

Awesome :)

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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