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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make LIST_POISON less deadly
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:52:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4832BB6A.8010809@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4832BABA.9040809@firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Makes sense.  I'll send out v3.
>>
>> Is there a similar range on i386?
>>     
>
> Don't think so. Address space is too precious here.
>
> What you could probably do is to unmap one fixed page in some range
> that is always split to 4K pages anyways and use that. Perhaps somewhere
> in the 640k-1MB range. But if you're unlucky this might require a
> variable, not a constant.
>   

I guess a fixmap would work for this.  But then the offsets added to 
that page would need to be limited to 4K.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-18 15:38 [PATCH] Make LIST_POISON less deadly Avi Kivity
2008-05-19 13:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-19 13:18   ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-19 13:22     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-19 13:35       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-19 13:45   ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-19 19:04     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-20  7:06       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-20 11:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-20 11:34   ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-20 11:49     ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-20 11:52       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-05-20 12:04         ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-20 12:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-20 16:47 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-20 16:50   ` Avi Kivity

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