Re: [patch 7/8] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear addressspace.

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Sat Aug 05 2006 - 18:50:49 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:58:32 -0700
Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which
might not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a
useful tool to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem address
space.

Andi has gone and rotorooted the x86 boot parameter handling in there. This patch now looks like this:

The rototilled patch looks great. Acked.

Zach
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