Eric W. Biederman wrote:
I happened to be looking at this stretch of code and I have realized that this is quite simply the wrong fix. The problem is that it depends intimately on the details of alloc_bootmem_pages_low. Essentially the problem is that when we are setting up the identity mappings in paging_init we assume the identity mappings already exist. If there are holes in the memory map or someone changes the way pages are returned from alloc_bootmem_pages_low() this code will break again.
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