linux-kernel - Re: [patch]VMSPLIT

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Date:	Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:05:45 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [patch]VMSPLIT_2G conflicts with PAE

Hi!

> PAGE_OFFSET is 0x78000000 with VMSPLIT_2G, this address is in the middle
> of the second pgd entry with pae enabled. This breaks assumptions
> (address is aligned to pgd entry's address) in a lot of places like
> pagetable_init. Fixing the assumptions is hard (eg, low mapping). SO I
> just changed the address to 0x80000000.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
> index 8ff1c6f..fddfb26 100644
> --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
> @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ endchoice
>  config PAGE_OFFSET
>  	hex
>  	default 0xB0000000 if VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
> -	default 0x78000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
> +	default 0x80000000 if VMSPLIT_2G
>  	default 0x40000000 if VMSPLIT_1G
>  	default 0xC0000000

Do we allow user entering arbitrary value here? In any case, it would
be nice to document alignment requirements of this one, because
otherwise someone *will* get it wrong.

-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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