Re: Reserving physical memory at boot time

[Mike Galbraith]

At 08:25 AM 12/4/2002 -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>On 3 Dec 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:11, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > If you need a certain page reserved at boot-time you are out-of-luck.
> >
> > Wrong - you can specify the precise memory map of a box as well as use
> > mem= to set the top of used memory. Its a painful way of marking a page
> > and it only works for a page the kernel isnt loaded into.
> >
>
>If you are refering to the "reserve=" kernel parameter, I don't
>think it works for memory addresses that are inside existing RAM.
>I guess if you used the "mem=" parameter to keep the kernel from
>using that RAM, the combination might work, but I have never
>tried it.

reserve= is for IO ports (kernel/resource.c). I think Alan was referring to 
mem=exactmap.

If Duncan didn't have the pesky requirement that his module work in an 
unmodified kernel, it would be easy to use __alloc_bootmem() to reserve an 
address range and expose via /proc.  But alas...

         -Mike