Re: MP-Table mappings

Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:47:33 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > In my dmesg I'm getting duplicate table reservations.
>
> Just a crap bios

That's unrelated -- duplicate reservations are due to the MP table being
located in memory areas marked as "reserved" (ROM, ususally) in the map.
Thus the area is never freed in the first place and when smp_scan_config()
calls reserve_bootmem() for the pages a warning is issued. Harmless,
indeed.

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