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From: Andi Kleen <ak@novell.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI boot support
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:56:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708011456.21768.ak@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185958748.1363.40.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com>


> 
> Should I change "change_page_attr" to make it work before "mem_init"? Or
> Should I change "init_memory_mapping" to make it can be used to change
> mapping attributes? Which one is better?

It's probably better to change init_memory_mapping. Just do it cleanly 
and correctly please. As in only change the pages that straddle the 
EFI areas and don't use globals.

BTW i don't see any such code on i386. How does the EFI support
there handle it?

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31  3:12 [PATCH 2/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI boot support Huang, Ying
2007-07-31 11:35 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-01  8:59   ` Huang, Ying
2007-08-01 12:56     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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