While currently there doesn't appear to be any reachable in-tree
case where such large memory blocks may be passed to memset()
(alloc_bootmem() being the primary non-reachable one, as it gets
called with suitably large sizes in FLATMEM configurations), we
have recently hit the problem a second time in our Xen kernels.
Rather than working around it a second time, prevent others from
falling into the same trap by fixing this long standing
limitation.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F05D992020000780006AA09@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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