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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/37] x86: check range in update range
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On 01/19/2010 08:56 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
>> fend off wrong range
> 
> Why is it ok now to call these functions with start >= end? Bootmem
> compatibilty?

and amd_bus/intel_bus etc will be use 32bit etc

YH