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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