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SubjectRe: Page scan keeps touching kernel text pages
On Mon, 25 February 2008 13:46:32 -0600, Dave McCracken wrote:
> On Monday 25 February 2008, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > I thought that init sections were deliberatly pushed to the end of the
> > kernel when linked, cirtainly on my laptop here that seems to be so.
> > That would make the first two "after" the kernel.  The other two appear
> > to be before the traditional kernel load address, which is 0x100000, so
> > those pages are before not in the kernel?
>
> I believe the memory below the kernel load address on x86 is returned to the
> free memory pool at some point during boot, which would explain those
> addresses.

It does explain all pages. Sorry about the noise from an mm-newbie.

Jörn

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