From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:45:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: fix bug which lowmem size is limited to 760MB In-Reply-To: References: <20150903091044.GW21084@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1713935.2YV1sNJUyb@wuerfel> Message-ID: <6035791.Tn8TYmTeXT@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 07 September 2015 11:34:36 Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > That shifts the risk to user space though. But if there is a regression > there, it will manifest itself on all systems and not only with some > particular hardware. I'd consider that a good thing, as it makes it easier to test when you see the same behavior on systems with any memory size. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754019AbbIGPpX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:45:23 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:60659 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753805AbbIGPpU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:45:20 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Russell King , Yongtaek Lee , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: fix bug which lowmem size is limited to 760MB Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:45:08 +0200 Message-ID: <6035791.Tn8TYmTeXT@wuerfel> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.16.0-10-generic; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20150903091044.GW21084@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1713935.2YV1sNJUyb@wuerfel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:HTR1vhIPXodyZef8dWeNuQ5Gzt3cZbevm9To9smKdejoqfcH+Hc NC/ZgUmVMN/P62RCkgO0dPKLikOLr9YFy7PTzv/gsd0uAW2opdmFyskZVCfY4pPnsKJ+ZFj krMy4d9pmtdlqXH5u60WQFIyoxZA2yP2r000P/CcQWqKGrt+IYXXZ8D03/+7kWS41rbWhh2 Iv1XolAL+nwcQRwKAQ3GA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:f0kOxwcfMMI=:ikBcnNixwdpx+3zUZ9iEWX L9kO6FNrwnlAp2Oq7RsG/kvOhkwrLcd3dkGNGwDVpFnRGuAXgHrDDxo7l39Hhi+kzGHElZbCO eCEosVqwxDX6DgOVV1umJbdrvJDe1ONl+fCgZL1MoiEzDnqYX0g6HJV8muYBb2CxEXUczCkX3 2IqIKsGjhYIvlXgDGyNvcx2Y2FRpufudG1L/vwFRiEkvnzpEbfSBAXDGv+wA/CmOimDxZMxJL LeHzjY+vpDoCVuFM9aPS3Znej+3zhj8SNJHV4f74+/3TYJM+ABqrAkLZYKT9o1YkZzpi33Ebw iS6f1XKAp0UdFkQV/zvzsRWq2vrwzI93bnFLmJ1cH7bBTFXwXCnZ54VGBIBJ/8loRFon9NSak bEZmmT6vw9sW4EPhE2rdY/GPPv8TyP/WgRxYiHyXfzzhP4P9qxAM07yDI4q+cs1eFkiVKNxhl /BEz/bR5QLFSUGBeFYzXkR0ywvbir2/nYUHHV1cmlItDHEkyfaVcB0kNgQM5AlR97dSoqftbM wywGKx2avOXMuGOZlmk+PM+Z8nN2J6SGRY/drlBWp1UAKpHYJ63XIimNKkAbHhDMpCm2HG302 2Nu9bJYkJSmBsunKDi4gLcinL353eauJ57PmTpgZvgEYqtjrGBaWc/GuniuPFnzGuFuwU3HMl j1difLFARsT2Xz+LW+dHbAz2XFzsqecbFD0mbUfE6UdorrR6WMr0hijvL4CYK7tGX1ZNhRB2S xlHPPysVz6tQnnie Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 07 September 2015 11:34:36 Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > That shifts the risk to user space though. But if there is a regression > there, it will manifest itself on all systems and not only with some > particular hardware. I'd consider that a good thing, as it makes it easier to test when you see the same behavior on systems with any memory size. Arnd