Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:12:05 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: make sure wakeup code is below 1M -v2 |
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* 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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