On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:35:27PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> hi,
> 
> > the problem that uvm_km_check_empty() noticed is from the call in
> > pmap_init_md().  here we try to claim the virtual space which is already
> > backed by PTEs set up back in pmap_bootstrap().  hopefully we can just
> > use the normal pmap interfaces to create those mappings later, but I haven't
> > tried it yet.
> 
> is there any reason these areas are reserved using uvm_map,
> rather than using the same way as kernel text?  merely to save some va?

no good reason that I know of.  I'd be fine with doing it that way.
if you write it, I'll test it.  :-)

-Chuck