Re: HIGH MEMORY access

From: david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 11:34:06 EST


>> From: Manfred Spraul [mailto:manfreds@colorfullife.com]

>> * max_pfn is set to the end if the last usable block.
>> * then the ACPI tables follow --> they are behind max_pfn -->
>> behind the
>> end of mem_map.

In article <linux.kernel.AB4CB1CC6547D21197B00008C7F48FB402C10FFB@txexmta0.amd.com>,
 <nathan.zook@amd.com> wrote:
>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.

    Only if these pages are set as acpi reclaim memory; if they're
    marked as nvs and happen to be above the last ram section, max_pfn
    won't catch them.

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