From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:02:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:02:17 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:28839 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:02:17 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:10:24 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Dave Hansen , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kexec reboot code buffer Message-ID: <20030128001024.GD780@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , "Martin J. Bligh" , Dave Hansen , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3E31AC58.2020802@us.ibm.com> <3E35AAE4.10204@us.ibm.com> <203100000.1043705004@flay> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <203100000.1043705004@flay> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:03:24PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > We talked about creating a new zone specifically for DMA32 (ie <4Gb) > for other reasons, but it's not there as yet. As Dave mentioned, > ZONE_NORMAL should be sufficient, though if you need it physically > contiguous, that might be a problem. Slapping down the new zone type is trivial and has no obvious negative consequences. There's no clear reason why it's not already been done. -- wli