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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: make sure wakeup code is below 1M -v2

* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> On 11/12/2009 11:36 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > Physical constraints to allocations (which this is) should be expressed
> > early and with high priority, to make sure they can be met.
> >
>
> Indeed, and in this case this means before bootmem allocator initialization.

The other advantage of Yinghai's patch is that it removes a bootmem
usage from x86, which moves us a bit forward on the road to remove the
bootmem allocator altogether and go from early allocators to slab
straight away.

Ingo


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