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Message-ID: <49BE9B0D.8080807@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:31:41 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [crash] Re: Latest brk patchset
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> need more extra check for INIT_MAP_SIZE calculating...
>>
> 
> The original calculation was designed to map enough memory that we could
> map all of lowmem.  That is, two page table levels removed from actual
> lowmem, which put the overhead in the order of kilobytes (16 K in the
> wost case.)  Something similar is definitely needed.
> 
or find_early_table_space()  has some problem? that estimating could be oversized ...
YH 
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