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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:38:53 +0100 From: Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org> To: Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@...cle.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Page scan keeps touching kernel text pages On Mon, 25 February 2008 13:46:32 -0600, Dave McCracken wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2008, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > I thought that init sections were deliberatly pushed to the end of the > > kernel when linked, cirtainly on my laptop here that seems to be so. > > That would make the first two "after" the kernel. The other two appear > > to be before the traditional kernel load address, which is 0x100000, so > > those pages are before not in the kernel? > > I believe the memory below the kernel load address on x86 is returned to the > free memory pool at some point during boot, which would explain those > addresses. It does explain all pages. Sorry about the noise from an mm-newbie. Jörn -- Joern's library part 14: http://www.sandpile.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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