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SubjectRe: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 03:19:03AM +0000, tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Commit-ID: 147dd5610c8d1bacb88a6c1dfdaceaf257946ed0
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/147dd5610c8d1bacb88a6c1dfdaceaf257946ed0
> Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:11:09 -0800
> Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> CommitDate: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:11:09 -0800
>
> x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to
>
> A relocatable kernel can be anywhere in lowmem -- and in the case of a
> kdump kernel, is likely to be fairly high. Since the early page
> tables map everything from address zero up we need to make sure we
> allocate enough brk that we can map all of lowmem if we need to.
>
> Reported-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>

Fix confirmed, thanks

Stanislaw


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