This is exactly why I have always been adamant that people should NOT do
direct IO and try to walk the page tables. But people have ignored me, and
quite frankly, those drivers should just be broken. The painful part is
finding out which of them do it, but once done they should just be broken
wrt bigmem, no questions asked.
Linus
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