From: Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: Page scan keeps touching kernel text pages
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:46:32 -0600
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On Monday 25 February 2008, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> I thought that init sections were deliberatly pushed to the end of the
> kernel when linked, cirtainly on my laptop here that seems to be so.
> That would make the first two "after" the kernel. ?The other two appear
> to be before the traditional kernel load address, which is 0x100000, so
> those pages are before not in the kernel?

I believe the memory below the kernel load address on x86 is returned to the 
free memory pool at some point during boot, which would explain those 
addresses.

Dave McCracken
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