From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261282AbVGTOvh (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:51:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261345AbVGTOvg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:51:36 -0400 Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com ([143.166.148.206]:49831 "EHLO ausc60ps301.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261282AbVGTOvG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:51:06 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.94,211,1118034000"; d="scan'208"; a="269202443:sNHT24694764" Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Subject: RE: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:51:05 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific) Thread-Index: AcWMreglo3w1RHozQIiGEqwfWVErfwAiwFjw From: To: Cc: , , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jul 2005 14:51:05.0752 (UTC) FILETIME=[74D2D180:01C58D3A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > there's one problem with the patch: it breaks things that need the > low 1MB executable (e.g. APM bios32 calls). It would at a minimum be > needed to exclude the BIOS area in 0xd0000-0xfffff. > > Ingo I wrote it to make everything below 1MB executable, if it isn't RAM according to the e820 map, which should include the BIOS area. This includes 0xd0000-0xffff on my system. Do you think I should explicity make 0xd0000-0xfffff executable regardless of the e820 map? Thanks Stuart