Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] x86/boot/64: Avoid mapping reserved ranges in early page tables.

2019-10-10 Thread Steve Wahl
It's been a while on this patch set; two weeks ago Kirill added acks, no movement since. Is there anything I need to be doing on my part to move this forward? Thanks! --> Steve Wahl On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 04:03:22PM -0500, Steve Wahl wrote: > This patch set narrows the valid space addressed b

[PATCH v3 0/2] x86/boot/64: Avoid mapping reserved ranges in early page tables.

2019-09-24 Thread Steve Wahl
This patch set narrows the valid space addressed by the page table level2_kernel_pgt to only contain ranges checked against the "usable RAM" list provided by the BIOS. Prior to this, some larger than needed mappings were occasionally crossing over into spaces marked reserved, allowing the processo