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    [PATCH] i386: Implement CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN · e69f202d
    Vivek Goyal authored
    o Now CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is being replaced with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN.
      Hardcoding the kernel physical start value creates a problem in relocatable
      kernel context due to boot loader limitations. For ex, if somebody
      compiles a relocatable kernel to be run from address 4MB, but this kernel
      will run from location 1MB as grub loads the kernel at physical address
      1MB. Kernel thinks that I am a relocatable kernel and I should run from
      the address I have been loaded at. So somebody wanting to run kernel
      from 4MB alignment location (for improved performance regions) can't do
      that.
    
    o Hence, Eric proposed that probably CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN will make
      more sense in relocatable kernel context. At run time kernel will move
      itself to a physical addr location which meets user specified alignment
      restrictions.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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