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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address
	space.
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:17:29 +1000
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On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 14:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:58:32 -0700
> Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
> =

> > Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisor=
s.
> > This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which
> > might not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a
> > useful tool to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem addre=
ss
> > space.
> =

> Andi has gone and rotorooted the x86 boot parameter handling in there. =


That was me, via Andi, but yep:

> diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~x86-add-a-bootparameter-to-reserve-hig=
h-linear-address-space arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c~x86-add-a-bootparameter-to-reserve-high-li=
near-address-space
> +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SI
>  =

>  unsigned char __initdata boot_params[PARAM_SIZE];
>  =

> +static int __init setup_reservetop(char *s)
> +{
> +	return 1;
> +}
> +__setup("reservetop", setup_reservetop);
> +
>  static struct resource data_resource =3D {
>  	.name	=3D "Kernel data",
>  	.start	=3D 0,

Please remove this hunk: it's now junk.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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