From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753158Ab0JMVDx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:03:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41064 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751524Ab0JMVDw (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:03:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4CB61E95.90702@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:03:17 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] memblock related fixes for -tip References: <4CAA4DC1.6000104@kernel.org> <4CB4ABE2.3010300@goop.org> <4CB4CF4D.5020706@kernel.org> <4CB4F11F.4090104@goop.org> <4CB54640.4000003@kernel.org> <4CB5DEE8.2020400@goop.org> <4CB5F86C.9030900@zytor.com> <4CB6107F.4080908@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <4CB6107F.4080908@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/13/2010 01:03 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > I'm looking at ways of avoiding the dependency on bottom-up allocation > at the moment. It looks like it's OK if I can assume that the pagetable > is being allocated out of pages in the range > e820_table_start-e820_table_end (though one hopes those will get renamed > to something a bit more meaningful). > > I should know how its going to turn out later today. > Thanks, I appreciate it. -hpa