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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
	Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:28:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050824212837.GP7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430CE428.3000605@vmware.com>

* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> Hmm.  I was thinking it would be compile time variable with defaults -- like
> 
> config MEMORY_HOLE
>       int "Create hole at top of memory (0-512 MB)"
>       range 0 512
>       default "0"
>       default 168 if (CONFIG_X86_PAE && CONFIG_X86_HYPERVISOR)
>       default 64 if (!CONFIG_X86_PAE && CONFIG_X86_HYPERVISOR)

That's fine, I had done some braindead math anyway ;-)

>       help
>          Useful for creating a hole in the top of memory when running
>          inside of a virtual machine monitor.
> 
> Adding things to the fixmap is a separate concept, thus a separate patch ;)

Sure, good point.

thanks,
-chris

      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-24 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-24 18:45 [PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space Zachary Amsden
2005-08-24 20:19 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-24 21:18   ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-24 21:28     ` Chris Wright [this message]

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