Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754346AbYHGXVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:21:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752336AbYHGXVa (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:21:30 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:60044 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752155AbYHGXVa (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:21:30 -0400 Message-ID: <489B836A.3050209@goop.org> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:21:14 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zachary Amsden CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Alok Kataria , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" , Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc.. References: <1218136365.23770.52.camel@alok-dev1> <489B6710.9000604@kernel.org> <1218144438.20178.336.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <1218144438.20178.336.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 18 Zachary Amsden wrote: > Or we could remove the dependency on max_low_pfn and just create a > liberal linear to physical mapping for lomem which spans all possible > low memory; then it doesn't matter so much where it is called. > Yes. You could just call reserve_top_address() at a suitably early point to reserve the space. Its a pvops API call which has been there since patch one or two of pvops. It does exactly what the rest of this thread discusses, rendering it moot. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/