linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/init: respect memblock reserved regions when destroying mappings

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Date:	Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:02:02 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/init: respect memblock reserved regions when destroying
 mappings

On 02/14/2011 09:55 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> Assume, we can update vmlinux.lds.S to make _end to be 2M aligned as
> Stefano suggested?
> 

I am concerned about this.  This feels like papering over a bug.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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