* David Klempner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-20 14:15]: > For whatever reason, they made prompting about VMSPLIT dependent on > CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
Quoting http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17 : --- commit 9539d4e79fae8482bc64ced03a46c7c6d711d19e Author: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Apr 27 18:39:36 2006 -0700 [PATCH] Mark VMSPLIT EMBEDDED Running abnormal VM splits causes weird problems - people can set non-standard splits by accident, then lots of time gets wasted diagnosing it - see the long "[stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of" email thread. So we need to make this option harder to set. Use CONFIG_EMBEDDED for this. CONFIG_EMBEDDED isn't really the right thing to use, but there's nothing else obvious and avoiding these problems is more important than Kconfig purity. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- The reasoning here seems sound. It's probably not worth the trouble (particularly for anything more severe than the 2.75/1.25 split for 1GB) unless you actually know what you're doing. -- David Klempner
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