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SubjectRe: HIGH MEMORY access
nathan.zook@amd.com wrote:
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> 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.

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Manfred

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