From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266944AbUBGPjj (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:39:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266947AbUBGPjj (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:39:39 -0500 Received: from nsmtp.pacific.net.th ([203.121.130.117]:25511 "EHLO nsmtp.pacific.net.th") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266944AbUBGPjg (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 10:39:36 -0500 From: Michael Frank To: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.25-rc1: Add user friendliness to highmem= option Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:38:02 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , , , References: In-Reply-To: X-OS: KDE 3 on GNU/Linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402072338.05365.mhf@linuxmail.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > >