Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:39:08 -0400
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86/mem-hotplug: Support initialize page tables
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Hello,

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:34:46PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
> > But that wouldn't be ideal as we want the page tables above kernel
> > image and the above would allocate it above ISA_END_ADDRESS, right?
> 
> The original idea is we will allocate everything above the kernel. So
> the pagetables for [ISA_END_ADDRESS, kernel_end) will be also located
> above the kernel.

I'm a bit confused why we need two separate calls then.  What's the
difference from calling with the whole range?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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