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* VMSPLIT kernel config option
@ 2006-06-12 20:54 Andrew Clayton
  2006-06-12 20:55 ` Chase Venters
  2006-06-12 20:57 ` Mark Lord
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Clayton @ 2006-06-12 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml

Hi,

Is it meant, that the VMSPLIT_* options are only enabled 
"if EMBEDDED"?

See line 470 of arch/i386/Kconfig

This is with 2.6.17-rc6-git4


Cheers

Andrew

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* Re: VMSPLIT kernel config option
  2006-06-12 20:54 VMSPLIT kernel config option Andrew Clayton
@ 2006-06-12 20:55 ` Chase Venters
  2006-06-12 21:07   ` Andrew Clayton
  2006-06-12 20:57 ` Mark Lord
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chase Venters @ 2006-06-12 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Clayton; +Cc: lkml

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Andrew Clayton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it meant, that the VMSPLIT_* options are only enabled
> "if EMBEDDED"?

Indeed. Unfortunately, adjusting VMSPLIT appeared to break the assumptions 
of some programs like Valgrind (and hence caused a regression for some 
users). VMSPLIT was thusly "hidden" under CONFIG_EMBEDDED such that the only
people who would be inclined to mess with the setting were people already tinkering 
with "low-level" settings if you will.

> See line 470 of arch/i386/Kconfig
>
> This is with 2.6.17-rc6-git4
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew

Thanks,
Chase

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* Re: VMSPLIT kernel config option
  2006-06-12 20:54 VMSPLIT kernel config option Andrew Clayton
  2006-06-12 20:55 ` Chase Venters
@ 2006-06-12 20:57 ` Mark Lord
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mark Lord @ 2006-06-12 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Clayton; +Cc: lkml

Andrew Clayton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it meant, that the VMSPLIT_* options are only enabled 
> "if EMBEDDED"?
> 
> See line 470 of arch/i386/Kconfig
> 
> This is with 2.6.17-rc6-git4

Heh.. it took me a while to find that change, too.

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* Re: VMSPLIT kernel config option
  2006-06-12 20:55 ` Chase Venters
@ 2006-06-12 21:07   ` Andrew Clayton
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Clayton @ 2006-06-12 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Chase Venters; +Cc: lkml

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:55:23 -0500 (CDT), Chase Venters wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it meant, that the VMSPLIT_* options are only enabled
> > "if EMBEDDED"?
> 
> Indeed. Unfortunately, adjusting VMSPLIT appeared to break the
> assumptions of some programs like Valgrind (and hence caused a
> regression for some users). VMSPLIT was thusly "hidden" under
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED such that the only people who would be inclined to
> mess with the setting were people already tinkering with "low-level"
> settings if you will.

Ah, understood.


Cheers,

Andrew

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