linux-kernel - Re: [PATCh] x86: overmapped fix when 4K pages on tail

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Message-ID: <20080710071640.5035cd70@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:16:40 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCh] x86: overmapped fix when 4K pages on tail - 64bit

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:15:02 -0700
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> fix phys_pmd_init to make sure not to return big value than end.
> 
> also print out range split:1G/2M/4K
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>


Making an accurate mapping solves a lot of potentially nasty/tricky
corner cases, so I like the approach

Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

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