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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct mapping.
On 10/20/2011 02:30 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/20/2011 02:28 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> writes:
>>
>>> On systems with very large memory (1 TB in our case), BIOS may report a
>>> reserved region or a hole in the E820 map, even above the 4 GB range. Exclude
>>> these from the direct mapping.
>>
>> This doesn't make much sense. Holes above 4GB are completely legal.
>>
>> If you need to workaround a specific broken BIOS you would need a quirk
>> only matching that system, with a suitable "BIOS is broken" message.
>>
>
> The problem is that apparently right now we map those unconditionally
> into the 1:1 map and mark them cacheable in PAT, which we *don't* for
> the < 4 GiB map.
>
> This thus makes the behavior match < 4 GiB, which is the correct
> behavior; this should be made clear in the patch description.
>

Specifically, it's fine for them to be mapped; it's not fine for them to
be mapped cacheable.

-hpa



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