From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Early memory patch, revised
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:49:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <403CEE33.3020601@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1r7wjf22s.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Two little tweaks I can think of.
> 1) Can we reserve space between __bss_stop and _end for the page
> tables and the bitmap of memory?
>
> This should make it obvious that the early boot code is touching
> that memory.
>
After thinking about this a little bit more, you will actually *cause*
boot failures on low memory machines if you do this.
Not cool.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-25 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-24 5:10 Early memory patch, revised H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-25 18:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-02-25 18:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-25 18:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-02-26 14:56 ` [PATCH] Early memory patch, +accounting Eric W. Biederman
2004-02-26 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-01 7:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-02-26 6:16 ` Early memory patch, revised Eric W. Biederman
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