Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: suggest running a 64bit kernel on LM capable machines with plenty memory. | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:01:25 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 06:21 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:37:08 +0100 > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c > > index 34ef5c7..e759107 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c > > @@ -713,13 +713,19 @@ void __init lowmem_pfn_init(void) > > "only %luMB highmem pages available, ignoring highmem size > > of %luMB!\n" > > #define MSG_HIGHMEM_TRIMMED \ > > - "Warning: only 4GB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled > > kernel!\n" > > + "Warning: only 4GB will be used. Use a %s kernel!\n" > > + > > +#define MSG_LM_TRIMMED \ > > + "Warning: instead of using a 32bit %s kernel, Use a 64bit > > kernel!\n" + > > I would like to avoid the prefix "Warning:" for something like this ;-) > > lets keep that prefix for Real Warnings(tm) instead please.
It is a Real warning, its issued when memory gets trimmed because you run a wrong kernel. The only change is suggesting to run a 64bit kernel when possible instead of a HIGHMEM/PAE kernel.
Esp on x86_64 machines with >=4G of memory its insane to run i386-PAE.
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