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

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> it seems reserve _brk_end is some late?
>
> init_memory_mapping(0,...) could get some for direct mapping page table. and it could start from _end...
>   

Ah, thanks!  I was confused by the use of reserve_early() in 
initmem_init(), but they're OK because they allocate out of the e820 map 
at that point (and init_memory_mapping() reserves everything it allocates).

I'll give it a whirl.

   J
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