linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: don't ever allocate PTEs from lowmem

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Message-ID: <20080421190519.GA3104@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:05:19 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: don't ever allocate PTEs from lowmem


* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is needed for the kernel to boot properly without OOMing if PSE 
> is not present or disabled for some reason. It is the fix that you 
> proposed for the kmemcheck OOM-on-boot case. It would also be possible 
> to check the PSE feature before deciding where to allocate from, but I 
> don't think it really matters.
> 
> Looks ok?

yes, looks good - thanks, applied.

> (And yes, this DOES fix the OOM for me. :-D)

great :)

	Ingo
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