Re: [PATCH] x86: reuse the boot-time mappings of fixed_addresses

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> 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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