On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.w...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:38:49PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> We are going to map ram only, so under max_low_pfn_mapped,
>> between 4g and max_pfn_mapped does not mean mapped at all.
>
> I think I know what you are saying but I am having a hard
> time parsing it. Is this what you mean?
>
> "We check to see if the PFNs are under max_low_pfn_mapped or
> between 4G and max_pfn_mapped. If they are not: then we
> map them." ?
No
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We are going to map ram only in patch:
x86, mm: Only direct map addresses that are marked as E820_RAM
so range under max_low_pfn_mapped, ranges between 4g and max_pfn_mapped
could have holes in them and the holes will not be mapped.
Use pfn_range_is_mapped() to check if the range is mapped.
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