Re: BUG: 1bbbbe7 (x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions...) PANIC onboot

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Oct 22 2012 - 17:00:42 EST


On 10/22/2012 01:50 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> We should not map a partial page at the end of RAM; it is functionally
>> lost.
>
> Now we did not, we have max_low_pfn, and max_pfn to cap out end partial page.
>

Well, it is not just end of RAM, which is where the entire current
implementation falls apart, obviously.

-hpa

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