From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766990AbXDSVEO (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:04:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1766988AbXDSVEO (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:04:14 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56776 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1766990AbXDSVEM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:04:12 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:04:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andrew Morton , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, lkml , Zachary Amsden , Chris Wright , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds References: <20070414204154.871250608@goop.org> <200704192250.52633.ak@suse.de> <4627D756.5020405@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4627D756.5020405@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704192304.01053.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 19 April 2007 22:55:50 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Is some version of this going in for 2.6.21, or is it not a real problem? > > > > When it's only seen with Xen it's not a real problem right now. > > It's not just seen only with Xen, though. It will affect all kernels in > a particular range of sizes, and we have ordinary kernels covering that > range (in fact, Xen hardly affects size in that way.) Then we would have seen reports surely? -Andi