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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs
    On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:27:46PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
    > On Wednesday, June 6, 2007 4:24 pm Justin Piszcz wrote:
    > > > The mem= approach though looks slightly off, but I haven't looked
    > > > at x86_64's mem= handling to see why. From a high level though,
    > > > adjusting end_pfn is the right thing to do, since theoretically
    > > > mem= could choose to make holes in your low memory and keep your
    > > > high memory in the allocation pools (though it's not generally
    > > > implemented this way).
    > > >
    > > > Jesse
    > >
    > > Ahh, ok! Sounds great, I will keep running the kernel with your
    > > patch without mem= and let you know if I see any issues.
    > >
    > > Chances of getting this into 2.6.22-rc5?
    >
    > I'm not sure it's appropriate for -rc5 since it mucks around with some
    > early boot ordering, but I'll leave that to Andi, since it does address
    > some real bugs people have been seeing.

    I don't think the patch is suitable for merging at this time. Perhaps
    if it survives some time in -mm* / 2.6.23* it could be backported
    in a later 2.6.22 stable release. But right now it definitely
    needs more testing and addressing of my review comments.

    > Can we add your "Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>" to
    > the patch? :)

    All such headers are only for the trail of blame and do you want to blame
    Justin if anything goes wrong? Perhaps it should rather have a
    Blame-to: <whoever wrote Justin/Jesse's BIOS> but that also wouldn't
    help without concrete contact points.

    -ANdi
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