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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:39:38 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 mm init cleanup
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Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
> > Patch against test11.  This patch moves the setting of %cr4 out of the
> > loops and makes the code a bit more readable.  Tested with standard
> > pagetables, PSE, and PAE.
> >
> >
> 
> Brian,
> 
> while you were there, so close to paging_init() why not also correct the
> wrong comment at the top of the function? It talks about 0-4M pagetables
> whereas we really setup (see head.S) 0-8M.
> 
> Regards,
> Tigran

Add this little patch then

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diff -urN linux-2.4.0t11p7/arch/i386/mm/init.c linux/arch/i386/mm/init.c
--- linux-2.4.0t11p7/arch/i386/mm/init.c	Mon Oct 23 17:42:33 2000
+++ linux/arch/i386/mm/init.c	Sat Nov 18 11:38:02 2000
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
 }
 
 /*
- * paging_init() sets up the page tables - note that the first 4MB are
+ * paging_init() sets up the page tables - note that the first 8MB are
  * already mapped by head.S.
  *
  * This routines also unmaps the page at virtual kernel address 0, so

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