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

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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:54:47 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
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 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."

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    Boris.

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