From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030259AbXDMWVN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:21:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030853AbXDMWVN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:21:13 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.141]:43112 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030259AbXDMWVN (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:21:13 -0400 Message-ID: <462001A9.3030006@vmware.com> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:18:17 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: For debugging, make the initial page table setup less forgiving. References: <200704132149.l3DLnvUY012097@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> In-Reply-To: <200704132149.l3DLnvUY012097@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > + /* > + * End condition: we must map up to and including > + * INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END bytes beyond the end of our > + * own page tables; 0x1000 is the size of the page > + * table were about to write, and +0x007 is the > + * attribute bits. > + */ > + leal (INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END+0x1000+0x007)(%edi),%ebp > hrmm? Shouldn't that still be INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END+0x0007? Seems you are mapping 4M more than you need. Zach