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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	vgoyal@redhat.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][EFI] Run EFI in physical mode
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:08:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f5e697c-e9ae-4453-aa7a-7086dd156cc9@email.android.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimtH41djAF5OxXCeVS8cHg_JCBd+wQ1iT1BUWgX@mail.gmail.com>

For the 1:1 map we probably should make all pages executable; other things need it too, but we shouldn't have it mapped in except when needed.

"huang ying" <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> No, it should not be dynamic; rather we should unify all the users who need a 1:1 map and just keep that page table set around.
>
>Agree. One known issue of global 1:1 map is that we need to make at
>least part of page table PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC for EFI runtime code, and
>change_page_attr can not be used before page allocator is available.
>
>Best Regards,
>Huang Ying

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16  5:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-13 19:18 Takao Indoh
2010-08-13 22:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-16 19:30   ` Takao Indoh
2010-08-13 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-13 22:33   ` Luck, Tony
2010-08-13 23:11     ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-13 23:16       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-13 23:36         ` Tony Luck
2010-08-16  1:31           ` Simon Horman
2010-08-13 22:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-16  1:43 ` huang ying
2010-08-16  3:27   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-16  4:58     ` huang ying
2010-08-16  5:08       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-08-16 23:39         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-08-16 23:54           ` H. Peter Anvin

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