On 10/16/2012 11:26 AM, Jacob Shin wrote:
Right, we are (AMD) thinking about the same thing .. how to backport to
stable kernels of major enterprise OSes
The simplest and the least disruptive solution would be to not map memory
holes that occur above 4GB, it won't affect 32 bit kernels, and it won't
touch legacy (under 4GB) area (ISA, the PCI MMIO region ..):
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/20/323
HPA, it would be great if we can first get this patch upstream, and also
into the stable trees .. and after that, we can work on getting Yinghai's
mm refactoring in ..
Yes, that makes sense at this point.
-hpa
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