Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix atomic_t overflow in vm

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From: Alan Cox <alan@...>

To: Alan Cox <alan@...>

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix atomic_t overflow in vm

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 5:37 pm

On Wed, 14 May 2008 22:33:03 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

quoted text> From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
> 
> The atomic_t type is 32bit but a 64bit system can have more than 2^32
> pages of virtual address space available. Without this we overflow on
> ludicrously large mappings
> ---

Umm need to adjust the template: Add

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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