Re: [PATCH] i386: For debugging, make the initial page table setupless forgiving.

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Fri Apr 13 2007 - 18:21:29 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
+ /*
+ * End condition: we must map up to and including
+ * INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END bytes beyond the end of our
+ * own page tables; 0x1000 is the size of the page
+ * table were about to write, and +0x007 is the
+ * attribute bits.
+ */
+ leal (INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END+0x1000+0x007)(%edi),%ebp

hrmm? Shouldn't that still be INIT_MAP_BEYOND_END+0x0007? Seems you are mapping 4M more than you need.

Zach
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