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BUG 800061 - HIGHMEM support is broken

To: nb@xxxxxxx
Subject: BUG 800061 - HIGHMEM support is broken
From: pv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (ananth@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:55:21 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Submitter : ananth                    Submitter Domain : engr               
Assigned Engineer : nb                Assigned Domain : sgi.com             
Assigned Group : xfs-linux            Category : software                   
Customer Reported : F                 Priority : 2                          
Project : xfs-linux                   Status : open                         
Description :
There are two problems in handling highmem with XFS:

1. consistent use of kmap/kunmap to get at the address
   of a page.

2. supporting highmem with kiobufs.

I'll check-in a short fix that will check, issue warning, etc.
if highmem is turned on.

ananth.

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