linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct mapping.

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Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:29:31 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"Herrmann3, Andreas" <Andreas.Herrmann3@....com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes
 above 4 GB from direct mapping.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:54 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

>
> For 2 - why can't we simply make the invariant that E820_RAM is mapped and
> nothing else, with the sole exceptions being the 1 MiB (fixed MTRR)?

Yes, we could do that. but need to track mapped area in simple way.
like later memory hotadd or remove to update those tracking.

Thanks

Yinghai
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