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"David Wilk" <davidwilk@gmail.com> writes: > Ok, I think I need to apologize to everyone here. I have found the > problem, and it is not with your patch, Hugh. For some reason, the > config for my 2.6.16.7 source tree had a 1G/3G user/kernel split > configured. This is very bizaar as I copy my .config from tree to > tree to avoid any changes in the configuration of my test kernels. This just shows this dreaded VMSPLIT config was a bad idea in the first place. There was a reason we didn't have it for such a long time (too many users get it wrong) and such occurrences just show again that this is still true. IMHO it would be best to just remove that option again and require users who really want to change this to patch their kernels again. At the very least it should be probably made dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. -Andi Mark VMSPLIT EMBEDDED Too many users get it wrong. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ endchoice choice depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_PAE - prompt "Memory split" + prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED default VMSPLIT_3G help Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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