From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Haim D." <haimdaniel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: x86_32 machine with 4G - possible wrong last_pfn value ?
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:11:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D73EA6B.1050002@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=H8uOpqC56GCt9U89nDWChG5nQa4kUz+fxHPdc@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/06/2011 07:04 AM, Haim D. wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running a x86_32 bit 4G machine with 2.4.33 and 2.6.34, I've
> noticed the difference between max_pfn values
> 2.4.33 shows 0x100000
> 2.4.34 shows 0xdffe0
>
[ ... ]
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 -
> 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 -
> 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 -
> 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 -
> 00000000dffe0000 (usable)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000dffe0000 -
> 00000000dffee000 (ACPI data)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000dffee000 -
> 00000000e0000000 (ACPI NVS)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 -
> 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 -
> 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 -
> 0000000120000000 (usable)
Based on this memory map, 0xdffe0 is the correct max_pfn value.
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: Warning only 4GB will be used.
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: Use a PAE enabled kernel.
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: (find_max_low_pfn:1003) max_low_pfn to 753664
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: 1152MB HIGHMEM available.
> Mar 6 13:27:17 localhost kernel: 2944MB LOWMEM available.
... for a non-PAE kernel, apparently compiled with a weird split.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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2011-03-06 15:04 ` x86_32 machine with 4G - possible wrong last_pfn value ? Haim D.
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