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SubjectRE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com> wrote:
>
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> there's one problem with the patch: it breaks things that need the
>>> low 1MB executable (e.g. APM bios32 calls). It would at a minimum be
>>> needed to exclude the BIOS area in 0xd0000-0xfffff.
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>
>> I wrote it to make everything below 1MB executable, if it isn't RAM
>> according to the e820 map, which should include the BIOS area. This
>> includes 0xd0000-0xffff on my system. Do you think I should
>> explicity make 0xd0000-0xfffff executable regardless of the e820 map?
>
> hm ... which portion does this? I'm looking at fixnx2.patch. I
> definitely saw a APM bootup crash due to this, but that was on a
> 2.4-ish backport of the patch.
>
> Ingo

Oh, sorry, we're talking about two different patches. I sent in a
different patch yesterday, because Andi Kleen didn't seem very
enthusiastic about fixnx2.patch. Here's the patch that I sent yesterday
(attached as file init.c.patch).

Thanks
Stuart
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