Re: [patch 02/11] PAT x86: Map only usable memory in x86_64identity map and kernel text

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 15:56:24 EST



* Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:50:41PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> > (Personally, I keep a copy of Arjan's "restrict devmem" patch from Fedora
> > around, so I guess that says which camp I belong in, and the fact it's a Fedora
> > patch and not mainstream says something too...)
>
> The way that patch is right now (and has been for some time) is kind
> of nasty, and could use cleaning up. I made a half-assed attempt at
> improving it a little over xmas, but it could rewriting from scratch.
> That's the only reason I never bothered pushing it (and I assume, the
> reason that Arjan didn't push it when he wrote the original).

could someone please send it into this thread so that we can have a go
at integrating it into x86.git?

Ingo
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