Re: [PATCH] x86: reuse the boot-time mappings of fixed_addresses

Ingo Molnar
2009-09-04T07:34:38Z

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> On 08/31/09 01:26, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>> I'm wondering, how much space do we save this way, on a typical bootup
> >>> on a typical PC?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Not a huge lot... a few dozen pages.
> >>
> > I guess it's still worth doing - what do you think?
> >
>
> It hardly seems worth it, but I guess it isn't much code. [...]

Ok, i understood this as an Acked-by from you - lemme know if that's
wrong ;-)

> [...] Will having an apparent overlap of vmalloc and fixmap
> spaces confuse anything?

At most perhaps some debug tools - kcrash & co.

Ingo