Setup a 256 kB area for the cpu areas below the FIXADDR area.
The use of the cpu alloc area is pretty minimal on i386. An 8p system
with no extras uses only ~8kb. So 256kb should be plenty. A configuration
that supports up to 8 processors takes up 2MB of the scarce
virtual address space.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig.i386 | 12 ++++++++++++
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 3 +++
include/asm-x86/pgtable_32.h | 7 +++++--
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig.i386
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig.i386 2007-11-06 05:05:19.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/Kconfig.i386 2007-11-06 05:26:39.000000000 +0000
@@ -95,6 +95,18 @@
bool
default y
+config CPU_AREA_VIRTUAL
+ bool
+ default y
+
+config CPU_AREA_ORDER
+ int
+ default "6"
+
+config CPU_AREA_ALLOC_ORDER
+ int
+ default "0"
+
source "init/Kconfig"
menu "Processor type and features"
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c 2007-11-06 05:01:23.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c 2007-11-06 05:07:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -674,6 +674,7 @@
#if 1 /* double-sanity-check paranoia */
printk("virtual kernel memory layout:\n"
" fixmap : 0x%08lx - 0x%08lx (%4ld kB)\n"
+ " cpu area: 0x%08lx - 0x%08lx (%4ld kb)\n"
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
" pkmap : 0x%08lx - 0x%08lx (%4ld kB)\n"
#endif
@@ -684,6 +685,8 @@
" .text : 0x%08lx - 0x%08lx (%4ld kB)\n",
FIXADDR_START, FIXADDR_TOP,
(FIXADDR_TOP - FIXADDR_START) >> 10,
+ CPU_AREA_BASE, FIXADDR_START,
+ (FIXADDR_START - CPU_AREA_BASE) >> 10,
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
PKMAP_BASE, PKMAP_BASE+LAST_PKMAP*PAGE_SIZE,
Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-x86/pgtable_32.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-x86/pgtable_32.h 2007-11-06 05:01:23.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-x86/pgtable_32.h 2007-11-06 05:07:33.000000000 +0000
@@ -79,11 +79,14 @@
#define VMALLOC_START (((unsigned long) high_memory + \
2*VMALLOC_OFFSET-1) & ~(VMALLOC_OFFSET-1))
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-# define VMALLOC_END (PKMAP_BASE-2*PAGE_SIZE)
+# define CPU_AREA_BASE (PKMAP_BASE - NR_CPUS * \
+ (1 << (CONFIG_CPU_AREA_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT)))
#else
-# define VMALLOC_END (FIXADDR_START-2*PAGE_SIZE)
+# define CPU_AREA_BASE (FIXADDR_START - NR_CPUS * \
+ (1 << (CONFIG_CPU_AREA_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT)))
#endif
+#define VMALLOC_END (CPU_AREA_BASE - 2 * PAGE_SIZE)
/*
* _PAGE_PSE set in the page directory entry just means that
* the page directory entry points directly to a 4MB-aligned block of
--
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
