From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030859AbXDMW1O (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:27:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030861AbXDMW1N (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:27:13 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:54677 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030859AbXDMW1M (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:27:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4620039B.9000608@goop.org> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:26:35 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zachary Amsden CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , 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> <462001A9.3030006@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <462001A9.3030006@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zachary Amsden wrote: > 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. No, that's an actual byte address of the end of the mapped area, not a pfn. J