linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/13] x86, mm: Revert back good

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Message-ID: <87d30wmnrc.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:45:43 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] x86, mm: Revert back good_end setting for 64bit

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> writes:

> On 10/05/2012 02:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> writes:
>>
>>> with bzImage or vmlinux?
>>
>> bzImage I presume.  Certainly the bzImage has lost it's 896M limit,
>> which is where ultimiately the 896M limite came from.
>>
>
> ~896M (actually comes from i386, not from bzImage...

Right it was 1G - VMALLLOC_SIZE.

At some point that affected the boot protocol as the maximum address we
could load ramdisks.

Eric
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