Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.0-rt4

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > The list of disabled config option is now:
> > >
> > >  - CONFIG_HIGHMEM [ see the mess it created in 33-rt ]
> >
> > Could someone please point me to information on this?
> >
> > In our setup, we do use PREEMPT_RT + HIGHMEM, on .33 for now (but want
> > to upgrade because of new hardware support issues with .33).  Up to
> > now, we did not face any issues related to PREEMPT_RT + HIGHMEM
> > combination.
>
> Yes, it works in 33-rt, but the way it's implemented is a horrible
> hack. I had not enough capacity to implement that cleanly for 3.0-rt,
> so I simply dropped it for now. The preliminary patches are there
> (mainly distangling the disable_pagefault logic), so it should not be
> that hard.

Thanks Thomas.

Since we do need PREEMPT_RT + HIGHMEM for our use case (*), I can ask one 
of our engineers to look into this. But for that, I need to get better 
understanding of what the issue is. Could you please explain in a few 
sentences, or point me to some information from where I could get the 
picture?

Nikita

(*) we need >1G of memory for data buffers, and have too much legacy 
software components so moving to 64bit system is not practical within 
available resource
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