On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 12:01:08AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 of September 2005 02:00, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> >
> > My patch as such shouldn't change the behavior of the existing swsup
> > code. I am making only boot_level4_pgt as initdata. But not the
> > init_level4_pgt.
>
> Suresh, unfortunately the kernel does not boot with your patch, because
Did you try just only my patch on top of 2.6.14-rc2? You can get that
patch from http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg07313.html
> it clears init_level4_pgt.
what is wrong with zapping low mappings? Looks like someother change
you are trying assumes that low mappings are always present in init_level4_pgt,
which is wrong..
> +++ linux-2.6.14-rc2-git7/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c 2005-09-29 22:13:55.000000000 +0200
> @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
> void __cpuinit zap_low_mappings(int cpu)
> {
> if (cpu == 0) {
> - pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset_k(0UL);
> + pgd_t *pgd = boot_level4_pgt;
> pgd_clear(pgd);
Don't do this. Its wrong.
Please send me your patch that you are having problems with. I can take
a look at it.
thanks,
suresh
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