[PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space

[Zachary Amsden]

Allow compile time creation of a hole at the high end of linear address space.
This makes accomodating a hypervisor a much more tractable problem by giving
it ample playground to live in.  Currently, the hole size is fixed at config
time; I have experimented with dynamically sized holes, and have a later
patch that developes this potential, but it becomes much more useful once
the exact negotiation of linear address space with the hypervisor is defined.

The fixed compile time solution is sufficient for now.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig	2005-08-24 09:30:49.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/Kconfig	2005-08-24 09:58:56.000000000 -0700
@@ -803,6 +803,14 @@ config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
 	def_bool y
 	depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 
+config MEMORY_HOLE
+	int "Create hole at top of memory (0-512 MB)"
+	range 0 512
+	default "0"
+	help
+	   Useful for creating a hole in the top of memory when running
+	   inside of a virtual machine monitor.
+
 source "mm/Kconfig"
 
 config HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13.orig/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h	2005-08-24 09:30:43.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h	2005-08-24 10:04:42.000000000 -0700
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  * Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and
  * the start of the fixmap.
  */
-#define __FIXADDR_TOP	0xfffff000
+#define __FIXADDR_TOP	(0xfffff000-(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOLE << 20))
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
-
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