Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753585Ab2JFBDn (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:03:43 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43275 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750825Ab2JFBDk (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2012 21:03:40 -0400 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <87d30wmnrc.fsf@xmission.com> 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> <506F78C9.1000803@zytor.com> <87d30wmnrc.fsf@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] x86, mm: Revert back good_end setting for 64bit From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:02:19 -0700 To: ebiederm@xmission.com CC: Yinghai Lu , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Jacob Shin , Stefano Stabellini , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Tejun Heo , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Message-ID: <047b1c66-b3a0-4a25-b691-8ead19b7446e@email.android.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 31 That disappeared 10 years ago... ebiederm@xmission.com wrote: >"H. Peter Anvin" writes: > >> On 10/05/2012 02:41 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. >>> >> >> ~896M (actually comes from i386, not from bzImage... > >Right it was 1G - VMALLLOC_SIZE. > >At some point that affected the boot protocol as the maximum address we >could load ramdisks. > >Eric -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- 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/