linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G

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Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:47:36 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk
 and bzImage above 4G

There are obviously good bits to this patchset, but I'm really starting 
to think the "pseudo-linear mode" via a trap handler -- meaning we can 
access all of memory without any extra effort -- makes more sense.  In 
fact, that way we could just build the full page tables without worrying 
about incremental bootstrap, depending on if that is a complexity win or 
not.

Either way, this is for native only: the Xen domain builder or other 
similar entry paths should be setting up page tables that cover all of 
memory; I'm hoping Konrad and Stefano can confirm this.

The only reason to go with another approach I can think of is if it 
makes 32/64-bit unification cleaner.

	-hpa

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