linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm -v5 0/3] i386/x86

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Date:	17 Oct 2007 10:25:57 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:	"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 -v5 0/3] i386/x86_64 boot: 32-bit boot protocol

"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com> writes:

> Do you think it is a good idea to check the collision between setup data
> and memory area used during kernel boot through bootmem allocator?

You can't solve this through bootmem because x86-64 allocates memory
in several places before bootmem (using functions in e820.c) Right now
this is quite hackish with hard coded areas to avoid conflicts.  But I
recently had a need to allocate more memory that early too and changed
the code to a generic early reservation interface. With that it would
be relatively easy to reserve.

-Andi
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