Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86/mem-hotplug: Support initialize page tables bottomup

[Zhang Yanfei]

On 09/24/2013 09:27 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:23:48PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
>>> Hmm... so, this is kinda weird.  We're doing it in two chunks and
>>> mapping memory between ISA_END_ADDRESS and kernel_end right on top of
>>> ISA_END_ADDRESS?  Can't you give enough information to the mapping
>>> function so that it can map everything on top of kernel_end in single
>>> go?
>>
>> You mean we should call memory_map_bottom_up like this:
>>
>> memory_map_bottom_up(ISA_END_ADDRESS, end)
>>
>> right?
> 
> But that wouldn't be ideal as we want the page tables above kernel
> image and the above would allocate it above ISA_END_ADDRESS, right?

The original idea is we will allocate everything above the kernel. So
the pagetables for [ISA_END_ADDRESS, kernel_end) will be also located
above the kernel.

> Maybe memory_map_bottom_up() should take extra parameters for where to
> allocate page tables at separately from the mapping range and treat it
> specially?  Would that make the function a lot more complex?

Hmmmm...I will try to see if it is complex.

Thanks.

> 
> Thanks.
> 


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Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei
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