Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86, e820: Remove direct mapping of reserved spacefor HT hole around 1TB

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Tue Oct 16 2012 - 12:47:25 EST


Jacob,

On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 17:09 -0500, Jacob Shin wrote:
> The entire HT hole and also the unused address range before that hole
> need to be excluded from direct mapping. Otherwise speculative
> accesses to that reserved region can happen which cause machine
> checks.

Has the HT support even been added? I have a system with HT memory
histing feature and I am unable to boot with 1TB. Has this work been
redone as discussed in this thread?

-- Shuah


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