Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:21:14 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]Fix broken VMI in 2.6.27-rc.. |
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Zachary Amsden wrote: > Or we could remove the dependency on max_low_pfn and just create a > liberal linear to physical mapping for lomem which spans all possible > low memory; then it doesn't matter so much where it is called. >
Yes. You could just call reserve_top_address() at a suitably early point to reserve the space. Its a pvops API call which has been there since patch one or two of pvops.
It does exactly what the rest of this thread discusses, rendering it moot.
J
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