linux-kernel - Re: x86-32 PAE-enabled kernel fails to boot with 64GB of RAM

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Date:	Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:13:10 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
CC:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86-32 PAE-enabled kernel fails to boot with 64GB of RAM

On 12/06/2011 02:26 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> Quoting from Documentation/vm/highmem.txt:
> "
> The general recommendation is that you don't use more than 8GiB on a
> 32-bit machine - although more might work for you and your workload,
> you're pretty much on your own - don't expect kernel developers to
> really care much if things come apart.
> "
> 

Still, I suspect the failure to cap the memory space... it still
*should* at least limp along.  But yes, at some point the wheels really
will just come off the bus.

Does specifying a kernel"mem=" option (thereby capping the memory
artificially) work?

	-hpa

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