From: Michael Frank <mhf@linuxmail.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>, <axboe@suse.de>,
<rddunlap@osdl.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.25-rc1: Add user friendliness to highmem= option
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:38:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402072338.05365.mhf@linuxmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402071007510.28464-100000@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>
On Saturday 07 February 2004 23:08, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Michael Frank wrote:
>
> > Enclosed is a patch for x86 to make highmem= option easier to use.
> >
> > - Automates alignment of highmem zone
> > - Fixes invalid highmem settings whether too small or to large
> > - Adds entry in kernel-parameters.txt
>
> This is awesome! Thanks.
>
> Marcelo, could you please apply this ? ;)
>
Thank you very much for your encouraging response ;)
What is your opinion on shutting down the kernel on
zone alignment errors (applies to all arches) and
the force_bug method it uses to do so?
Regards
Michael
> --
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-07 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-07 11:50 [PATCH] 2.4.25-rc1: Add user friendliness to highmem= option Michael Frank
2004-02-07 15:08 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-07 15:38 ` Michael Frank [this message]
2004-02-07 16:01 ` Rik van Riel
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