PATCH for displaying pages [was: Re: PATCH: [olh at suse.de: kdb and softirqs]]

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Mar 24 08:21:44 EST 2004


On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:01:52AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> kdbm_memmap does not work on ia64, it oopses.  When I discussed this
> with Steve Lord, he said he wrote the code for i386 only.  The problem
> may be the lack of DISCONTIG support, I do not know the vm subsystem
> well enough to change it.

It certainly does not work on DISCONTIG systems.  It should work on all
machines without discontig, maybe except for the very strange virtual mem
map hack that can be optinionall be used on ia64.

Was your ia64 an Altix or some whitebox?


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