From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766982AbXDSU4J (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:56:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1766985AbXDSU4J (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:56:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:59023 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1766982AbXDSU4I (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:56:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4627D756.5020405@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:55:50 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Chuck Ebbert , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andrew Morton , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, lkml , Zachary Amsden , Chris Wright , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings References: <20070414204154.871250608@goop.org> <20070414204924.125386443@goop.org> <4627D57C.4070809@redhat.com> <200704192250.52633.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200704192250.52633.ak@suse.de> 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 Andi Kleen wrote: >> Is some version of this going in for 2.6.21, or is it not a real problem? > > When it's only seen with Xen it's not a real problem right now. It's not just seen only with Xen, though. It will affect all kernels in a particular range of sizes, and we have ordinary kernels covering that range (in fact, Xen hardly affects size in that way.) -hpa