[PATCH 8 of 13] Add a bootparameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors

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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 23:47 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>  > +		/*
> > +		 * reservedtop=size reserves a hole at the top of the kernel
> > +		 * address space which a hypervisor can load into later.
> > +		 * Needed for dynamically loaded hypervisors, so relocating
> > +		 * the fixmap can be done before paging initialization.
> > +		 * This hole must be a multiple of 4M.
> > +		 */
> > +		else if (!memcmp(from, "reservedtop=", 12)) {
> > +			unsigned long reserved = memparse(from+12, &from);
> > +			reserved &= ~0x3fffff;
> > +			set_fixaddr_top(-reserved);
> > +		}
> 
> You need to add a dummy __setup for it, otherwise it will end up in
> init's environments or be warned about.

Ewww, it's not the only one.  This whole function should be replaced
with a whole heap of early_param()s and a call to parse_early_param().

I only implemented parse_early_param two years ago; maybe it is time for
i386 to use it...

I'll create a patch,
Rusty.
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