linux-kernel - Re: x86/mm: Limit 2/4M size calculation to x86

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:44:03 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
CC:	Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: x86/mm: Limit 2/4M size calculation to x86_32

On 07/24/2012 06:52 PM, Cong Wang wrote:

>> From 6b679d1af20656929c0e829f29eed60b0a86a74f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
>> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:16:33 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Limit 2/4M size calculation to x86_32
>>
>> commit 722bc6b (x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables)
>> did modify the extra space calculation for mapping tables in order
>> to make up for the first 2/4M memory range using 4K pages.
>> However this setup is only used when compiling for 32bit. On 64bit
>> there is only the trailing area of 4K pages (which is already added).
>>
>> The code was already adapted once for things went wrong on a 8TB
>> machine (bd2753b x86/mm: Only add extra pages count for the first memory
>> range during pre-allocation early page table space), but it looks a bit
>> like it currently would overdo things for 64bit.
>> I only noticed while bisecting for the reason I could not make a crash
>> kernel boot (which ended up on this patch).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
>> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
>> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> 
> Sorry for that I was not aware of x86_64 is different with x86 in the
> first 2/4M.

Why would there be a difference?

Shouldn't the IO space at 0xa0000-0x100000 be mapped with uncacheable
attributes (or WC for VGA)?  If it's done later, it can be done later
for both.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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