From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
To: Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>
To: Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:45:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508241845.j7OIjIeM001900@zach-dev.vmware.com> (raw)
Allow compile time creation of a hole at the high end of linear address space.
This makes accomodating a hypervisor a much more tractable problem by giving
it ample playground to live in. Currently, the hole size is fixed at config
time; I have experimented with dynamically sized holes, and have a later
patch that developes this potential, but it becomes much more useful once
the exact negotiation of linear address space with the hypervisor is defined.
The fixed compile time solution is sufficient for now.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig 2005-08-24 09:30:49.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/Kconfig 2005-08-24 09:58:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -803,6 +803,14 @@ config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
def_bool y
depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
+config MEMORY_HOLE
+ int "Create hole at top of memory (0-512 MB)"
+ range 0 512
+ default "0"
+ help
+ Useful for creating a hole in the top of memory when running
+ inside of a virtual machine monitor.
+
source "mm/Kconfig"
config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h 2005-08-24 09:30:43.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h 2005-08-24 10:04:42.000000000 -0700
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
* Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and
* the start of the fixmap.
*/
-#define __FIXADDR_TOP 0xfffff000
+#define __FIXADDR_TOP (0xfffff000-(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOLE << 20))
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
#include <linux/kernel.h>
next reply other threads:[~2005-08-24 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-24 18:45 Zachary Amsden [this message]
2005-08-24 20:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space Chris Wright
2005-08-24 21:18 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-08-24 21:28 ` Chris Wright
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