Re: Does ZONE_HIGHMEM exist on machines with 1G memeory

[Robert Love]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 23:09 -0400, Ronghua Zhang wrote:

>   This may be a dumb question. But it seems to me that when the machine
> has 1GB memory, it can be mapped to the 1GB kernel virtual address space.
> Do we still need ZONE_HIGHMEM in this case? Please CC any follow-up to me.
> Thanks

Highmem is actually everything above 896MB ... so, yes, you need
ZONE_HIGHMEM.

	Robert Love


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