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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
>>>
>>> Rather than having special purpose init_pg_table_start/end variables
>>> to delimit the kernel pagetable built by head_32.S, just use the brk
>>> mechanism to extend the bss for the new pagetable.
>>>
>>> This patch removes init_pg_table_start/end and pg0, defines __brk_base
>>> (which is page-aligned and immediately follows _end), initializes
>>> the brk region to start there, and uses it for the 32-bit pagetable.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>>> index c246dc4..ed02176 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>>> @@ -113,8 +113,10 @@
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> unsigned int boot_cpu_id __read_mostly;
>>> -__initdata unsigned long _brk_start = (unsigned long)&_end;
>>> -__initdata unsigned long _brk_end = (unsigned long)&_end;
>>> +
>>> +extern char __brk_base[];
>>> +__initdata unsigned long _brk_start = (unsigned long)__brk_base;
>>> +__initdata unsigned long _brk_end = (unsigned long)&__brk_base;
>>>
>>
>> ?
>>
>
> What are you asking? __brk_base is _end rounded up to a page
> boundary, so head_32.S can use it directly for pagetable
> allocation. Are you flagging the '&' typo? Something else?

it's not really a typo either (__brk_base and &__brk_base should
be the same) - just a bit weird looking.

Ingo


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