On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:31:59PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:00:02PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: > > > Subject: [patch] Fix BIOS-e820 end address > > > > > > --snip of boot message-- > > > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > > > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) > > > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > > > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe8cc00 (usable) > > > ----end snip--- > > > > > > As you see from above the address 0000000000100000 is both > > > shown as reserved and usable which is confusing. > > > > > > > I think this is consistent with many other kernel interfaces (such as > > /proc/X/maps) where the end address is taken to be exclusive: [0xf0000, > > 0x100000). > > Andrew, Please disregard this patch. As Jermy, Jan pointed out, this > will cause more confusions. Thanks. I agree, we can discard my patch.
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