On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:06:07PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > "near kernel" is not very clear. when we have 64bit boot loader, > kernel could be anywhere. If the kernel is near the end of first > kernel, we could have chance to > have near kernel on second node. > > should use BRK for safe if the buffer is not too big. need bootloader > will have kernel run-time size range in same node ram. How would that make any difference? You're just expanding the size of kernel image instead of reserving it around the image. It's exactly the same thing. You're just less flexible if you do that with BRK. What am I missing here? -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>