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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: how to limit memory with 2.6.10 on ppc64 machine?
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:21:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E3E55C.90504@nortel.com> (raw)


I'm running 2.6.10 on a ppc64 machine with 4GB of memory.

We're debugging an issue and would like to try and see if disabling the 
U3 DART makes the problem go away.  Unfortunately, this particular blade 
is unstable if not all the memory banks are populated.

After some frustration I looked at the code and realized that the "mem=" 
functionality is not supported for ppc64 on this particular kernel.

Can anyone give me some advice on the simplest way to limit this thing 
to under 2GB of memory so that the DART is not allocated/used?

Does anyone know when support for "mem=" was added?  I know it is there 
in the current git version, but the "powerpc" consolidation means 
everything is all different now.

Thanks,

Chris

             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03 23:21 Christopher Friesen [this message]
2006-02-04  0:54 ` how to limit memory with 2.6.10 on ppc64 machine? Michael Ellerman

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