linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment

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Message-ID: <20170308090833.GA6570@x1>
Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:08:33 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, thgarnie@...gle.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Correct a tiny mistake in code comment

On 03/08/17 at 09:54am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 04:45:13PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > -4G and -68G just a trick which makes people understand easily, still we
> > think kernel text mapping region is in higher addr area then vmalloc. I
> > personnally think.
> 
> Just remove the direction: bottom-up or top-down, it will confuse people.
> 
> "We allocate runtime services regions starting from -4G, i.e.
> 0xffff_ffff_0000_0000 and decrement as we go. The EFI VA mapping space
> is limited to 64G."

Right, will repost one.

Thanks!