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

[Zhang Yanfei]

Hi tejun,

On 09/24/2013 09:39 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:34:46PM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> I'm a bit confused why we need two separate calls then.  What's the
> difference from calling with the whole range?

OK, this is just because we allocate pagtables just above the kernel.
And if we use up the BRK space that is reserved for inital pagetables,
we will use memblock to allocate memory for pagetables, and the memory
allocated here should be mapped already. So we first map [kernel_end, end)
to make memory above the kernel be mapped as soon as possible. And then
use pagetables allocated above the kernel to map [ISA_END_ADDRESS, kernel_end).

Thanks.

> 
> Thanks.
> 


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Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei
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