Re: PROBLEM: usage of page_address and CONFIG_HIGHMEM on ix86

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 09:24:12 EST

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On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:21:32PM -0400, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:06:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > vmalloc_32. This uses GFP_KERNEL so memory on a big box comes from the low
> > 960Mb
>
> Where is this 960Mb limit coming from btw? I see it on VW too, but
> I'm not there in the code yet.

1024MB from the 3GB user / 1GB kernel split, minus 64MB for vmalloc space
gives you 960MB.

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