linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:55:41 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

> >There are various loaders (kexec, elilo, ...) that skip the 16bit code
> >and jump directly to 32bit head.S. So in theory those could hit it.
> >But still having the loop only is probably fine.
> >
> 
> It's probably just as well, since we don't really know how to get a 
> message out in such an environment anyway...

It would be robably possible to extend the 32bit protocol to some
way to error out in such a case. On the other hand I'm not sure it's really
worth the considerable work to implement and debug such an addition.

> >>variant of make_pte now though.
> >
> >The 32bit cast still feels unclean. After all the PTE is not 32bit.
> 
> No, but (pte_t *) is 32 bits.  To be more "Linuxy" it probably should be 
> (long) or (unsigned long) though.

That's not 32bit either.

-Andi
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