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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:25:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org> To: "Kim, Jong-Sung" <neidhard.kim@....com> cc: 'Dave Martin' <dave.martin@...aro.org>, 'Minchan Kim' <minchan@...nel.org>, 'Russell King' <linux@....linux.org.uk>, 'Catalin Marinas' <catalin.marinas@....com>, 'Chanho Min' <chanho.min@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] [RESEND] arm: limit memblock base address for early_pte_alloc On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Kim, Jong-Sung wrote: > > From: Dave Martin [mailto:dave.martin@...aro.org] > > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 1:02 AM > > > > For me, it appears that this block just contains the initial region passed > > in ATAG_MEM or on the command line, with some reservations for > > swapper_pg_dir, the kernel text/data, device tree and initramfs. > > > > So far as I can tell, the only memory guaranteed to be mapped here is the > > kernel image: there may be no guarantee that there is any unused space in > > this region which could be used to allocate extra page tables. > > The rest appears during the execution of map_lowmem(). > > > > Cheers > > ---Dave > > Thank you for your comment, Dave! It was not that sophisticated choice, but > I thought that normal embedded system trying to reduce the BOM would have a > big-enough first memblock memory region. However you're right. There can be > exceptional systems. Then, how do you think about following manner: [...] This still has some possibilities for failure. Please have a look at the two patches I've posted to fix this in a better way. Nicolas -- 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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