Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:33:55 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: reuse the boot-time mappings of fixed_addresses |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> On 08/31/09 01:26, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >>> I'm wondering, how much space do we save this way, on a typical bootup > >>> on a typical PC? > >>> > >>> > >> Not a huge lot... a few dozen pages. > >> > > I guess it's still worth doing - what do you think? > > > > It hardly seems worth it, but I guess it isn't much code. [...]
Ok, i understood this as an Acked-by from you - lemme know if that's wrong ;-)
> [...] Will having an apparent overlap of vmalloc and fixmap > spaces confuse anything?
At most perhaps some debug tools - kcrash & co.
Ingo
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