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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/13] x86, mm: Revert back good_end setting for 64bit
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:19:08AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> wrote:
> > Any comments, thoughts? hpa? Yinghai?
> >
> > So it seems that during init_memory_mapping Xen needs to modify page table
> > bits and the memory where the page tables live needs to be direct mapped at
> > that time.
> >
> > Since we now call init_memory_mapping for every E820_RAM range sequencially,
> > the only way to satisfy Xen is to find_early_page_table_space (good_end needs
> > to be within memory already mapped at the time) for every init_memory_mapping
> > call.
> >
> > What do you think Yinghai?
>
> that may put the page table on near end of every ram range for next
> memory range.
>
> then kdump may have problem get big range again.

Is there a git commit that explains what the 'big range' problem is?


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