Re: [PATCH] Initialize max_pfn_mapped as initial ident mapping size for x86_64

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 03/05/2012 05:35 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> whole history:
> before following patch, on x86_64, for low memory (under 4g) pgtable
> will be allocated just under TOML
> and even those memory is not mapped directly. because now we are using
> early_ioremap to access those
> page table.
> 
> but looks it has problem with S4 resume. so good_end is set to initial
> mapped high address.
> (that is 512M). So page table will just below 512M
> but crash kernel is allocated below 768M. so will have no chance to
> get 512M porting for crashkernel.
> 
> Now your patch just set initial mapping limit to 1g. but according to
> arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
> we only have initial mapping to 512M.
> 
> So you can not just simply set to 1G,  that will confuse early
> memblock allocator.
> 
> We may update find_early_table_space() to use 1G as good_end for
> x86_64 that will be less confusing.
> 

This is crazy.  All of it.  We shouldn't have a bunch of magic memory
limits on 64 bits, and trying to add and subtract to them really just
makes the pain worse.

WHY does it have a problem with S4 resume?  S4 is Linux code, so there
is a bug here that people keep trying to hack around instead of digging
into.

The early mapping range we can fix, and probably should.  Mapping the
first 4 GiB is not a lot of memory and makes a much more sensible
starting point.

	-hpa


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