Re: Highmem emulation for 2.6?

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Sunday 07 March 2004 13:59, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi Pavel,

> Does anyone have `subj`?
something like attached patch? Only for x86 now. Ontop of 2.6.4-rc1-mm2.

ciao, Marc
--- old/include/asm-i386/setup.h	2004-02-26 01:29:43.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.4-rc1-mm2/include/asm-i386/setup.h	2004-03-07 14:08:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -13,7 +13,21 @@
 /*
  * Reserved space for vmalloc and iomap - defined in asm/page.h
  */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM_EMULATION
+#define ORDER_DOWN(x)  ((x >> (MAX_ORDER-1)) << (MAX_ORDER-1))
+#define MAXMEM_PFN					\
+({							\
+	int __max_pfn;					\
+	if (max_pfn > PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM))			\
+		__max_pfn = PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM);		\
+	else						\
+		__max_pfn = ORDER_DOWN(max_pfn / 5);	\
+	__max_pfn;					\
+)}
+#else
 #define MAXMEM_PFN	PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM)
+#endif
+
 #define MAX_NONPAE_PFN	(1 << 20)
 
 /*
--- old/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-03-05 17:16:45.000000000 +0100
+++ 2.6.4-rc1-mm2/arch/i386/Kconfig	2004-03-07 14:11:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -773,6 +773,19 @@ config X86_PAE
 	depends on HIGHMEM64G
 	default y
 
+config HIGHMEM_EMULATION
+	bool '  Emulate HIGHMEM on lowmem machines'
+	depends on HIGHMEM
+	default n
+	---help---
+	  Really obvious. With this option turned on and also selecting
+	  High Memory Support (4GB||64GB) you can emulate HIGHMEM on lowmem
+	  mashines. This does nothing usefull, nothing speed improvement
+	  or anything else but helps you to debug HIGHMEM code on lowmem  
+	  mashines.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 # Common NUMA Features
 config NUMA
 	bool "Numa Memory Allocation Support"