* Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be very easy to implement this if we could handle overlapping
> memblocks
> precisely or set a lower limit on the memblock allocator. Then we could block
> off everything below 1MB or 2MB very early and then unblock it or temporarily
> change the lower limit and ask for a single page for the trampoline after
> that.
So my suggestion was/is to _permanently_ allocate the SMP trampoline page, and
leave it also reserved.
'Reserving' a memory area is really just a kernel internal matter. We can still
use it. No need to unreserve/allocate/re-reserve ... unless I'm missing
something.
Thanks,
Ingo
