Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86: Only direct map addresses that are marked asE820_RAM

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Aug 27 2012 - 16:16:24 EST


On 08/27/2012 11:49 AM, Jacob Shin wrote:
>
> Yinghai, another question, what about hotplug? Are we guaranteed that
> we will always be adding memory above max_pfn_mapped?

I don't think we can rely on this...

> And hotplug will also update e820 to mark the range as E820_RAM as well?

This is really should.

-hpa

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