Re: [RFC][PATCH] kexec: Teach indirect pages how to live in high memory

2020-10-08 Thread Joonsoo Kim
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 01:39:16PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Hari Bathini writes: > > > On 05/05/20 3:29 am, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > >> Recently a patch was proposed to kimage_alloc_page to slightly alter > >> the logic of how pages allocated with incompatible flags were > >> det

Re: [RFC][PATCH] kexec: Teach indirect pages how to live in high memory

2020-05-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Hari Bathini writes: > On 05/05/20 3:29 am, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Recently a patch was proposed to kimage_alloc_page to slightly alter >> the logic of how pages allocated with incompatible flags were >> detected. The logic was being altered because the semantics of the >> page alloctor

Re: [RFC][PATCH] kexec: Teach indirect pages how to live in high memory

2020-05-05 Thread Hari Bathini
On 05/05/20 3:29 am, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Recently a patch was proposed to kimage_alloc_page to slightly alter > the logic of how pages allocated with incompatible flags were > detected. The logic was being altered because the semantics of the > page alloctor were changing yet again. >

[RFC][PATCH] kexec: Teach indirect pages how to live in high memory

2020-05-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Recently a patch was proposed to kimage_alloc_page to slightly alter the logic of how pages allocated with incompatible flags were detected. The logic was being altered because the semantics of the page alloctor were changing yet again. Looking at that case I realized that there is no reason fo