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Message-ID: <4AA13D0F.6050502@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:15:11 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Xiao Guangrong <ericxiao.gr@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	x86@...nel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: reuse the boot-time mappings of fixed_addresses

On 09/04/2009 08:47 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 09/04/09 00:33, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> It hardly seems worth it, but I guess it isn't much code. [...]
>>>     
>> Ok, i understood this as an Acked-by from you - lemme know if that's 
>> wrong ;-)
>>   
> 
> That's a bit proactive.  It's more "Meh-I-suppose-d-by: ".
> 

Pretty much.  I suspect we'll have to undo this when we fix the fixmap,
since it will no longer be adjacent to the vmalloc range.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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