I guess that very limited use might make sense.

Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> To be more clear: the max_pfn stuff seems like a relic of the past,
>and I am wondering what it would take to get rid of it.
>>
>> It clearly has the wrong semantics, except perhaps in the most
>trivial allocator models.
>>
>one thing i think could be : use that decide if we need iommu/swiotlb.
>like in
>arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c
>arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
>drivers/iommu/amd_iommu.c
>...
>
>Yinghai

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