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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2006-01-16 01:56:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-16 11:27:59 -0800 |
| commit | ee408c79420b6a437332d6977fe33ab72c36dc97 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b3c5dfb2a1e9b3f050ca62fa811b92c7c533498 /arch/x86_64/mm/init.c | |
| parent | 142a64a650fa5786c2ecea3de5ae3d5a2de72312 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ee408c79420b6a437332d6977fe33ab72c36dc97.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] x86_64: Don't try to put kernel page tables beyond ZONE_DMA32.
For not fully explained reasons it broke mem=... on several setups.
Also minor cleanup.
Cc: axboe@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/mm/init.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/mm/init.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c index eca60125efc3b..ef84106c1509b 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c @@ -262,19 +262,11 @@ static void __init find_early_table_space(unsigned long end) tables = round_up(puds * sizeof(pud_t), PAGE_SIZE) + round_up(pmds * sizeof(pmd_t), PAGE_SIZE); - /* Put page tables beyond the DMA zones if possible. - RED-PEN might be better to spread them out more over - memory to avoid hotspots */ - if (end > MAX_DMA32_PFN<<PAGE_SHIFT) - start = MAX_DMA32_PFN << PAGE_SHIFT; - else if (end > MAX_DMA_PFN << PAGE_SHIFT) - start = MAX_DMA_PFN << PAGE_SHIFT; - else - start = 0x8000; - - table_start = find_e820_area(start, end, tables); - if (table_start == -1) - table_start = find_e820_area(0x8000, end, tables); + /* RED-PEN putting page tables only on node 0 could + cause a hotspot and fill up ZONE_DMA. The page tables + need roughly 0.5KB per GB. */ + start = 0x8000; + table_start = find_e820_area(start, end, tables); if (table_start == -1UL) panic("Cannot find space for the kernel page tables"); |