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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:34:47 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem
mappings
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The only way to ensure this will not happen is to do what we do
> on x86_64 and map the new page table page into our address space
> before we write to it. Assuming the page we allocate is already
> mapped is simply not robust.
>
So you mean make alloc_bootmem make sure there's a mapping for the
returned page? That would be simple enough, though it might interact
strangely with the actual construction of the memory mappings (what if
the page alloc_bootmem just allocated for the pagetable is the page
pagetable_init is actually trying to map?).
I'm not sure about the issue with holes. I assume you mean that just
because head.S maps a chunk of memory, it isn't necessarily available
for allocation because its a hole. But does alloc_bootmem know to avoid
them anyway? Has it already parsed e820 at that point?
J
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