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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: kexec reboot code buffer
Date: 28 Jan 2003 00:28:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1isw968e3.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030128071826.GI780@holomorphy.com>

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:04:19AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I agree that lowmem for the common case is fine.  For kexec on panic,
> > and a some weird cases using high mem is beneficial.  I don't have
> > a problem with changing it back to just lowmem for the time being.
> 
> Well, there is the bit about dropping the PAE bit from %cr4 too.

Already done, it actually doesn't byte me until the next kernel starts
to execute, as we only set and not clear the PAE bit during bootup.

> Seriously, just plop down the fresh zone type and all will be well.
> It's really incredibly easy.

I will certainly take a look, tracing through that code can get a little
hairy.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3E31AC58.2020802@us.ibm.com>
2003-01-25 14:16 ` kexec reboot code buffer Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-27 21:55   ` Dave Hansen
2003-01-27 22:03     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-28  0:10       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-28  7:24       ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-28 16:15         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-29 15:41           ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-29 16:17             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-28  7:04     ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-28  7:18       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-28  7:28         ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2003-01-28  7:31           ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-28 15:21             ` Eric W. Biederman

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