Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:12:37 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [6/8] Account overlapped mappings in end_pfn_map |
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:34:34 +0100 (CET) Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> > When end_pfn is not aligned to 2MB (or 1GB) then the kernel might > map more memory than end_pfn. Account this in end_pfn_mapped.
we need to fix this btw; mapping memory that doesn't really exist is a rather nasty trap with cpu prefetching and the like.
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