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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:29:36 -0400
From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] tune vmalloc size
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:53:56PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> there are a few devices that use lots of ioremap space. vmalloc space is
> a showstopper problem for them.
> 
> this patch adds the vmalloc=<size> boot parameter to override
> __VMALLOC_RESERVE. The default is 128mb right now - e.g. vmalloc=256m
> doubles the size.

Perhaps this should instead be a configurable.
Joe
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