linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/28] i386: map enough initial memory to create lowmem mappings

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Message-ID: <20070426003337.GB2819@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:33:37 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	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

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@...p.org) wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Then why you had to allocate enough pages to cause a failure has me stumped.
> > Perhaps there is some other bug?
> 
> Perhaps, but nothing comes to mind. I'll see what happens when I boot
> this kernel on real hardware (rather than kvm).

I was using real hardware with your .config when I reproduced it.
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