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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Oct 17 2012 - 14:26:07 EST


On 10/16/2012 11:26 AM, Jacob Shin wrote:

Right, we are (AMD) thinking about the same thing .. how to backport to
stable kernels of major enterprise OSes

The simplest and the least disruptive solution would be to not map memory
holes that occur above 4GB, it won't affect 32 bit kernels, and it won't
touch legacy (under 4GB) area (ISA, the PCI MMIO region ..):

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/20/323

HPA, it would be great if we can first get this patch upstream, and also
into the stable trees .. and after that, we can work on getting Yinghai's
mm refactoring in ..


Yes, that makes sense at this point.

-hpa


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