linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 1/3] i386/x86

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Message-ID: <851fc09e0710090700u21b2db91yca2d5e88cb7a502a@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:00:57 +0800
From:	"huang ying" <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	"Chandramouli Narayanan" <mouli@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 1/3] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data

On 10/9/07, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
>
> > Care to add a line of documentation if you keep it in mm/memory.c?
>
> It would be better to just use early_ioremap() (or ioremap())
>
> That is how ACPI who has similar issues accessing its tables solves this.

Yes. That is another solution. But there is some problem about
early_ioremap (boot_ioremap, bt_ioremap for i386) or ioremap.

- ioremap can not be used before mem_init.
- For i386, boot_ioremap can map at most 4 pages, bt_ioremap can map
at most 16 pages. This will be an unnecessary constrains for size of
setup_data.
- For i386, the virtual memory space of ioremap is limited too.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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