Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
>> This reminds me... is your intent that the BRK is permanent (unless
>> explicitly freed on a page by page basis) or part of the init memory
>> that is flushed?
> 
> Permanent.  I'm using it to allocate things which are the moral
> equivalent of the kernel pagetables.
> 

Cool; just wanted it noted what the rules were.  Even more so the reason
to fold as many possible uses as possible into this new mechanism.

	-hpa

P.S. Could you send me the updates to the dom0 patches you said you had?

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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