Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holesabove 4 GB from direct mapping.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/20/2011 02:28 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On systems with very large memory (1 TB in our case), BIOS may report a
>> reserved region or a hole in the E820 map, even above the 4 GB range. Exclude
>> these from the direct mapping.
> 
> This doesn't make much sense.  Holes above 4GB are completely legal.
> 
> If you need to workaround a specific broken BIOS you would need a quirk
> only matching that system, with a suitable "BIOS is broken" message.
> 

The problem is that apparently right now we map those unconditionally
into the 1:1 map and mark them cacheable in PAT, which we *don't* for
the < 4 GiB map.

This thus makes the behavior match < 4 GiB, which is the correct
behavior; this should be made clear in the patch description.

	-hpa
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