From: Ruksen INANIR <rukseninanir@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: High Memory problem on 2.4.22 Linux, 2GB ppc card
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:35:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4869EC40.8070105@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi all,
I am working on a PPC Motorola card, which runs Linux 2.4.22. The card
has 2 GB onboard memory. But with use 1456 MB of the available memory.
To increase the memory capacity i need to increase the used memory at
least 64 MB. With CONFIG_HIGHMEM option all of the 2 GB memory can be
used but, but the fc driver on the card has no high memory support, so
this caused problems.
Then i saw that the memory is limited to 1456 by
#define MAX_LOW_MEM 0x5B000000 setting in pgtable.c. I tried to
increase it by 64 MB but i could only increase the value of MAX_LOW_MEM
by 47 MB (1503 MB) without CONFIG_HIGHMEM option.
1)Is there any other setting that i should set other than
MAX_LOW_MEM to increase the usable memory to 1520 ? Do i need to
change TASK_SIZE or KERNEL_START?
2)I knew that the addressable physical memory without high memory option
was 1 G. How was it possible to address 1503 MB without CONFIG_HIGHMEM
? What is the max usable memory for 2.4.22 kernel?
Thanks,
Rinanir.
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