On 08/12/2013 02:08 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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? > The BRK is what we know is free. Beyond that point you need understanding of the memory map. -hpa -- 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>