Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Nov 2015 13:09:48 +0000 | From | Matt Fleming <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v4.4 |
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On Thu, 05 Nov, at 11:05:35PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Admittedly, we might need to use a certain amount of care to avoid > interesting conflicts with the vmap mechanism. We might need to vmap > all of the EFI stuff, and possibly even all the top-level entries that > contain EFI stuff (i.e. exactly one of them unless EFI ends up *huge*) > as a blank not-present region to avoid overlaps, but that's not a big > deal.
There shouldn't be any room for conflicting with vmap() because the VA region where we map EFI regions is still carved out especially for us.
Right Boris?
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