On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:49:15PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/06/2013 01:33 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:58 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Excellent. Yinghai, can you write up the patch with a proper > >> description and I'll put it into x86/urgent. > > > > I made it more robust: make sure real_end have 8M below it. > > Please check attached one. > > > > Sigh. This is why "keep the page tables together" is fundamentally the > wrong strategy. > > 8M means that we won't even be able to boot on machines with less than > 16M or so of RAM... I'm not sure if anyone still cares, but that is a > pretty aggressive heuristic.
Maybe this should be a config option, given the ad-hoc nature of the chosen value? Anyway, the patch works. Henrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
