linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/33] x86_64: Kill temp_boot

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Message-ID: <m1d5bjyjmh.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:08:38 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Jan Kratochvil <lace@...kratochvil.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>, Linda Wang <lwang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/33] x86_64: Kill temp_boot_pmds

Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> writes:

> "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> writes:
>> 
>> I also modify the early page table initialization code
>> to use early_ioreamp and early_iounmap, instead of the
>> special case version of those functions that they are
>> now calling.
>
> Ok valuable cleanup. I queued that one too.
>
>> The only really silly part left with init_memory_mapping
>> is that find_early_table_space always finds pages below 1M.
>
> I fixed this some time ago - obsolete comment? 

Yes an obsolete comment.  I thought I had rechecked that
but I was skimming to fast.  find_e820_memory certainly
isn't limited to pages below 1M.

Eric
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