On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:53, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> I don't think I remember a restriction here, at least not below 44 bits
> >> (that's where pfn-s would need to become 64-bit wide).
> >
> >The i386 mm code only supports 4 entries in the PGD, so more than 36bit cannot
> >be mapped right now.
>
> That has nothing to do with the number of physical address bits.
You couldn't use the memory in any ways.
Anyways I give up -- the check is probably not needed, unless Andreas
comes up with a good reason.
>
> >Also even 64MB barely works (many boxes don't boot), you would likely
> >need at least the 4:4 patch to go >64GB. Also we know there are tons
> >of possible deadlocks in various subsystems when the lowmem:highmem ratio
> >gets so out of hand.
> >
> >Ok it could be probably all fixed with some work (at least the mm part,
> >the deadlocks would be more tricky), but would seem fairly
> >pointless to me because all machines with >36bits support are 64bit capable.
>
> That's a different story, and certainly a limiting factor. But this shouldn't
> e.g. disallow (hypothetical?) systems that have a very sparse memory map
> extending beyond 64G.
They would need a discontig kernel to boot most likely, otherwise
mem_map would fill up their memory.
And I was told Windows doesn't like that, so it's unlikely there will ever be such
x86 machines.
-Andi
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