Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] mm: Get rid of vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings()

Steven Rostedt
2020-05-11T20:50:49Z

On Mon, 11 May 2020 21:14:14 +0200
Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> wrote:

> > Or maybe we don't want to defeature this much, or maybe the memory hit
> > from this preallocation will hurt little 2-level 32-bit systems too
> > much.
>
> It will certainly make Linux less likely to boot on low-memory x86-32
> systems, whoever will be affected by this.

That may be an issue, as I'm guessing the biggest users of x86-32, is
probably small systems that uses Intel's attempts at the embedded space.

-- Steve