Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932854Ab2JEWBm (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:01:42 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:50485 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751743Ab2JEWBj (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:01:39 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Jacob Shin , Stefano Stabellini , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Tejun Heo , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Cliff Wickman References: <1348991844-12285-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1348991844-12285-5-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20121003165105.GA30214@jshin-Toonie> <20121004164630.GB2244@phenom.dumpdata.com> <871uhcsk93.fsf@xmission.com> <87ehlcr4et.fsf@xmission.com> <877gr4r40b.fsf@xmission.com> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:01:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Yinghai Lu's message of "Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:43:57 -0700") Message-ID: <87obkgpoi1.fsf_-_@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=98.207.153.68;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX19G8h4UQZgvtAcBQg0cXsbaotSAkUp924U= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 1.5 XMNoVowels Alpha-numberic number with no vowels * 0.1 XMSubLong Long Subject * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 T_TooManySym_04 7+ unique symbols in subject * 0.0 T_TooManySym_01 4+ unique symbols in subject * 0.0 T_TooManySym_03 6+ unique symbols in subject * 0.0 T_TooManySym_02 5+ unique symbols in subject X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Yinghai Lu X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: 896MB address limit (was: Re: [PATCH 04/13] x86, mm: Revert back good_end setting for 64bit) X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:31:04 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 34 I am going to see about merging these two threads. Yinghai Lu writes: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Yinghai Lu writes: >> >>> with bzImage or vmlinux? >> >> bzImage I presume. Certainly the bzImage has lost it's 896M limit, >> which is where ultimiately the 896M limite came from. > > they are using updated kexec-tools ? > > last time when i checked the code for kexec-tools > found the 896M problem was from kexec-tools bzimage support. Cliff Wickman was the guy at sgi running the tests. To the best of my knowledge he was runing an up to date kexec-tools and was loading a bzImage. Of course his initial reaction was where did the 896M limit come from, as he had just updated to a kernel with the limit a few weeks ago. YH please talk to Cliff directly. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/