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Subject[PATCH 3 of 4] sparsemem: reduce i386 PAE section size
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A 1G section size makes memory hotplug too coarse in a virtual
environment. Retuce it by a factor of 2 to 512M. I would have liked
to make it smaller, but it runs out of reserved flags in the page flags.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h b/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/sparsemem.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
# ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
-# define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 30
+# define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 29
# define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS 36
# define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 36
# else



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