From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:19:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A858E8.3070707@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A855B7.4090204@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> That would make sense. init_memory_mapping() needs to know what not to
> step on, and that would include the brk at this stage. For 64-bit mode,
> Xen is the only user of !PSE, and so may be particularly vulnerable to
> this issue (because of massively larger direct mapping tables.)
>
Yep.
> This reminds me... is your intent that the BRK is permanent (unless
> explicitly freed on a page by page basis) or part of the init memory
> that is flushed?
>
Permanent. I'm using it to allocate things which are the moral
equivalent of the kernel pagetables.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-27 17:58 [PATCH RFC] x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-27 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-27 19:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-27 19:26 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-27 20:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-27 21:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-27 21:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-27 21:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-02-27 21:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-27 21:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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