From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [crash] Re: Latest brk patchset
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:26:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BEB5FE.7050601@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BEAFEC.7020400@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> -INIT_MAP_SIZE = (PAGE_TABLE_SIZE + ALLOCATOR_SLOP) * PAGE_SIZE_asm
>>> -RESERVE_BRK(pagetables, INIT_MAP_SIZE)
>>> +/* Enough space to fit pagetables for the low memory linear map */
>>> +MAPPING_BEYOND_END = (PAGE_TABLE_SIZE(1 << (32 - PAGE_SHIFT)) *
>>> PAGE_SIZE)
>>>
>>
>> that is for 4g?
>>
>
> Yes, I suppose it only needs to be 1G. But it doesn't make much
> difference in practice.
>
A tighter bound would probably be nice, if nothing else because tighter
bounds tend to catch more bugs.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-16 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-14 23:43 Latest brk patchset H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-15 0:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-15 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-15 6:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-15 6:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-15 20:38 ` [crash] " Ingo Molnar
2009-03-15 20:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-15 21:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-15 21:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-15 23:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 8:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-16 16:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 16:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-16 17:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 17:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 18:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-16 18:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-16 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-16 18:31 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-16 19:25 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 19:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-16 19:48 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-16 20:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 20:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-16 20:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-16 21:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-16 22:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-17 2:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-17 4:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-17 5:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-17 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-17 19:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-17 19:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-17 19:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-17 21:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-17 21:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-17 19:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-22 15:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-22 17:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-22 17:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-22 21:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-23 16:39 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86/dmi: fix dmi_alloc() section mismatches Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-15 1:37 ` Latest brk patchset H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-15 4:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-15 4:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-15 5:33 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-15 6:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-15 6:25 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-15 6:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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