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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into .bss -v4
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:41:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B538AB.9080006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B4D03D.7030205@kernel.org>

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Impact: cleanup
> 
> Don't use ram after _end blindly for pagetables. aka init pages is before _end
> put those pg table into .bss
> 
> v2: keep initial page table up to 512M only.
> v4: put initial page tables just before _end
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> 

I still feel that this is a movement in *EXACTLY* the wrong direction,
as it is deliberately intended to prevent a general allocator for
anything that needs to be dynamic very early on.  I still think that
makes a lot more sense.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-09 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28  1:51 [PATCH] Simple brk allocator for very early allocations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: add brk allocation for very, " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: reserve brk earlier Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86-32: use brk segment for allocating initial kernel pagetable Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  7:02   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  7:05     ` J Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  7:15       ` J Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28  7:39         ` does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  7:47           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-02-28  7:54             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  8:08               ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-28 20:42                 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  7:52           ` brk patches Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  8:08             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-28  8:17             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28 20:40               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 23:53                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  1:02                   ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-02  1:07                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  1:16                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  1:36                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  1:54                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-02  2:12                             ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01  1:23               ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01  8:31                 ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01  9:20                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-01 17:49                     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 18:06                     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-01 23:29                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-02  0:55                         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09  8:15                           ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into .bss -v4 Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09 15:41                             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-09 17:35                               ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-09 18:28                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-11  1:39                                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-09  7:45                         ` [PATCH] x86: put initial_pg_tables into bss -v2 Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  8:07           ` does boot loader check uncompressed kernel size? H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-28  8:17         ` J Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  7:30       ` J Yinghai Lu
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: use brk allocation for DMI Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  1:51 ` [PATCH] x86: leave _brk_end defined Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-28  5:23 ` [PATCH] Simple brk allocator for very early allocations Andrew Morton
2009-02-28  6:30   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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