Re: i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ?

[Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu>]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002, Marvin Justice wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2002 01:45 pm, Daniel Freedman wrote:
> > Hi Marvin,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick reply.
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002, Marvin Justice wrote:
> > > Is this what your looking for? Just below the definition of PAGE_OFFSET
> > > in page.h:
> > >
> > > /*
> > >  * This much address space is reserved for vmalloc() and iomap()
> > >  * as well as fixmap mappings.
> > >  */
> > > #define __VMALLOC_RESERVE	(128 << 20)
> >
> > However, while it does seem to be exactly the definition for 128MB
> > vmalloc offset that I was looking for, I don't seem to have this
> > definition in my source tree (2.4.16):
> >
> >   freedman@planck:/usr/src/linux$ grep -r __VMALLOC_RESERVE *
> >   freedman@planck:/usr/src/linux$
> 
> Hmmm. Looks like it was moved sometime between 2.4.16 and 2.4.18pre1. In my 
> 2.4.16 tree it's located in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c and without the leading 
> underscores.
> 
> -M

<sheepishly buries head in sand>  Oops...  Sorry about missing that.

Thanks for the help and take care,

Daniel

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Daniel A. Freedman
Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
Department of Physics
Cornell University