Kostik Belousov wrote:
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 06:59:35PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
You can download a patch from
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~alc/amd64_kvm_6GB.patch that increases amd64's
kernel virtual address space to 6GB. This patch also increases the
default for the kmem map to almost 2GB. I believe that kernel loadable
modules still work. However, I suspect that mini-dumps are broken.
The amd64 modules text/data/bss virtual addresses are allocated from the
kernel_map (link_elf_obj.c, link_elf_load_file). Now, the lower end
of the kernel_map is top-6Gb.
Kernel code (both kernel proper and modules) is compiled for "kernel memory
model", according to the gcc info:
`-mcmodel=kernel'
Generate code for the kernel code model. The kernel runs in the
negative 2 GB of the address space. This model has to be used for
Linux kernel code.
I suspect we have a problem there.
The change to link_elf_obj.c is supposed to ensure allocation of an
address in the upper 2GB of the kernel map for the module.
Alan
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