Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:44:42 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: HIGH MEMORY access |
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nathan.zook@amd.com wrote: > > This is changing. The new patches will be reclaim-enabled, so those pages > will be mapped, and the max_pfn-class variables will reflect their presence. > and what if someone boots with "mem=32M", or if the bios supplies a bogus pointer? or if the bios returns a pointer to a rom chip at 4 GB? IMHO kmap() is intended for memory that's returned from gfp(|GFP_HIHMEM), but not for external pointers.
-- Manfred
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