From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: don't ever allocate PTEs from lowmem
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:05:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421190519.GA3104@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421185703.GA5022@damson.getinternet.no>
* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is needed for the kernel to boot properly without OOMing if PSE
> is not present or disabled for some reason. It is the fix that you
> proposed for the kmemcheck OOM-on-boot case. It would also be possible
> to check the PSE feature before deciding where to allocate from, but I
> don't think it really matters.
>
> Looks ok?
yes, looks good - thanks, applied.
> (And yes, this DOES fix the OOM for me. :-D)
great :)
Ingo
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2008-04-21 18:57 [PATCH] x86: don't ever allocate PTEs from lowmem Vegard Nossum
2008-04-21 19:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
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