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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: fix mm.txt documentation
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 10:47:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481AD528.1090809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502083805.GR20451@one.firstfloor.org>

On 05/02/2008 10:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> yep, the image was in a 128 MB chunk from which 88 MB was left empty and 
>> modules started at the next 128 MB boundary. The largest image i ever 
>> had was around 44MB, so i doubt it's an issue in practice. Mind doing a 
>> patch that reinstates it, by lowering the 512 image size limit to 508 
>> MB? [4MB should be more than enough in practice]
> 
> Actually you could even limit to the exact know size of the kernel (rounded
> up to 2MB) after early boot. Then the protection would be even better and less
> aliasing to deal with for pageattr.c. Just invalidate the left over PMDs.

Doesn't cleanup_highmap() do that? ... so I guess we don't need the hole? Or do 
we when we reach the limit to not go over to modules?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01  9:58 [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: fix mm.txt documentation Jiri Slaby
2008-05-01  9:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86_64: use PAGE_OFFSET in dump_pagetables Jiri Slaby
2008-05-02  7:33   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-02  7:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: fix mm.txt documentation Ingo Molnar
2008-05-02  7:57   ` Jiri Slaby
2008-05-02  8:38   ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-02  8:47     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-05-02  8:00 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-02  7:55   ` Jiri Slaby

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