| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 11/25] powerpc/8xx: map 16M RAM at startup | From | Christophe Leroy <> | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2015 16:10:36 +0200 |
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Le 29/09/2015 01:58, Scott Wood a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:50PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: >> On recent kernels, with some debug options like for instance >> CONFIG_LOCKDEP, the BSS requires more than 8M memory, allthough >> the kernel code fits in the first 8M. >> Today, it is necessary to activate CONFIG_PIN_TLB to get more than 8M >> at startup, allthough pinning TLB is not necessary for that. >> >> This patch adds a second 8M page to the initial mapping in order to >> have 16M mapped regardless of CONFIG_PIN_TLB, like several other >> 32 bits PPC (40x, 601, ...) >> >> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> >> --- > Is the assumption that nobody is still running 8xx systems with only 8 > MiB RAM on current kernels? > > No, setup_initial_memory_limit() limits the memory to the minimum between 16M and the real memory size, so if a platform has only 8M, it will still be limited to 8M even with 16M mapped.
Christophe
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