Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v4.4

Matt Fleming
2015-11-06T13:09:48Z

On Thu, 05 Nov, at 11:05:35PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Admittedly, we might need to use a certain amount of care to avoid
> interesting conflicts with the vmap mechanism. We might need to vmap
> all of the EFI stuff, and possibly even all the top-level entries that
> contain EFI stuff (i.e. exactly one of them unless EFI ends up *huge*)
> as a blank not-present region to avoid overlaps, but that's not a big
> deal.

There shouldn't be any room for conflicting with vmap() because the VA
region where we map EFI regions is still carved out especially for us.

Right Boris?