Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:06:28 +0100 |
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David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes: > > The problem is that for the non-virtualized case this patch bloats up > the BSS section to be more than 8MB in size. Sparc64 kernel images > cannot be more than 8MB in size total due to various boot loader and > firmware limitations.
I recently ran into a similar problem with x86-64 and large BSS from lockdep conflicting with a 16MB kdump kernel. Solution was to do another early allocator before bootmem and then move the tables into there.
-Andi
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