Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:15:54 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: 2GB-Linux works fine |
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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> Xintian WU wrote: > > > Thanks mingo. I manually apply your 2GB patch to linux-2.1.77. > > It works well at the first shot. I successfully set mem=2000m. > > It doesn't work if I set mem=2048m, which is OK (should it be > > a warning message instead of refusing to work silently?) > > Yes, this is just like "mem=1024m" on the standard kernel. That would > overflow vmalloc-ed stuff into somewhere else. Your system can now > only vmalloc something like 40Mb of kernel addressing space. It will > probably be able to cope with that.
I planned to add some code to the next patch which will enforce at least 128M vmalloc() (and ioremap() ...) space ... is this enough?
-- mingo
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