linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix booting with DEBUG_PAGE

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Message-ID: <520974DC.60802@intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:50:52 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix booting with DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC with more than
 512G RAM

On 08/12/2013 04:43 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> > commit 8170e6bed465b4b0c7687f93e9948aca4358a33b
>> > Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
>> > Date:   Thu Jan 24 12:19:52 2013 -0800
>> >
>> >     x86, 64bit: Use a #PF handler to materialize early mappings on demand
> Before that, we have maping from [0,512M) in head_64.S, and we can
> spare two pages [0-1M).  After that change, we can not reuse pages anymore.
> 
> When we have more than 512M ram, we need extra page for pgd page with
> [512G, 1024g).
> 
> Increase pages in BRK for page table to solve the booting problem.

So how much does this get us up to?  1TB?  That's actually _fairly_
small today.  I've got a fairly old machine with that much in it, and
it's only half full of DIMMs.

It's also a bit worrying that this is completely disconnected from the
other code in the kernel that is concerned with the amount of total
address space in the system: MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS.


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