From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932075AbWHAOes (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:34:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932451AbWHAOer (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:34:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:36821 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932075AbWHAOeo (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:34:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 07:34:28 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Chris Wright Cc: jeremy@xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, clameter@sgi.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, kraxel@suse.de, hollisb@us.ibm.com, ian.pratt@xensource.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, zach@vmware.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 7 of 13] Make __FIXADDR_TOP variable to allow it to make space for a hypervisor Message-Id: <20060801073428.f543ba9f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060801090330.GC2654@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20060801090330.GC2654@sequoia.sous-sol.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 02:03:30 -0700 Chris Wright wrote: > * Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xensource.com) wrote: > > -#define MAXMEM (-__PAGE_OFFSET-__VMALLOC_RESERVE) > > +#define MAXMEM (__FIXADDR_TOP-__PAGE_OFFSET-__VMALLOC_RESERVE) > > In the native case we lose one page of lowmem now. erm, isn't this the hunk which gave one of my machines a 4kb highmem zone? I have memories of reverting it.