Re: Question about Zone Allocation 2.4.X

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 20:32:18 EST


On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:11:27PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> Adding new zone types is easy. Just add them to mmzone.h, avoid setting
> ->virtual (which does not universally exist) in free_area_init_core()
> if it's not perma-mapped, stuff them in the fallback sequence in
> build_zonelists(), and detect them in arch/*/mm/init.c
>

Bill,

I also just reviewed the changes to the mmu code mode by Ingo -- very ugly
stuff. Looks like both changes are required to get this working properly
since without the PDE being setup properly, we'll get page faults since the
AS above 1GB is not mapped by the mmu.

Jeff

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