Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Get 32-bit physical addressby __pa_nodebug()

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/21/2013 03:40 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> +	initrd_start_p = (unsigned long *)__pa_nodebug(&initrd_start);
>> +	initrd_start_addr = (unsigned long)__pa_nodebug(*initrd_start_p);
> 
> We should probably use __pa_early() for that - aliased to __pa_nodebug(). 
> That would self-document the purpose.
> 

Well, it's not that it is early, it is that it actually can execute in
linear mode (paging off).

	-hpa


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