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Date:      Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:00 -0600
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Subject:   Re: Dynamic pcpu, arm, mips, powerpc, sun, etc. help needed
Message-ID:  <4A2F1148.9090706@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090609201127.GA50903@alchemy.franken.de>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906032050220.981@desktop> <20090609201127.GA50903@alchemy.franken.de>

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> As for sparc64 allocating the storage for the dynamic area
> from end probably isn't a good idea as the pmap code assumes
> that the range from KERNBASE to end is covered by the pages
> allocated by and locked into the TLB for the kernel by the
> loader

  Ditto for ppc. It's possible to get the additional space from within 
or after return from pmap_bootstrap() (like thread0's kstack, or the 
msgbuf).

later,

Peter.



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