Re: [PATCH] x86: don't ever allocate PTEs from lowmem

[Ingo Molnar]

* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is needed for the kernel to boot properly without OOMing if PSE 
> is not present or disabled for some reason. It is the fix that you 
> proposed for the kmemcheck OOM-on-boot case. It would also be possible 
> to check the PSE feature before deciding where to allocate from, but I 
> don't think it really matters.
> 
> Looks ok?

yes, looks good - thanks, applied.

> (And yes, this DOES fix the OOM for me. :-D)

great :)

	Ingo
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