Re: Does Linux have plan to support memory hole remapping?

[Arne Georg Gleditsch]

Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "Zhao Forrest" <forrest.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> As we can see from above information that the physical memory in system
>> is 32768MB(32GB). However OS is only using about
>> (32768-512)MB(MemTotal:     33010240 kB). Does this mean that this
>> linux kernel can't use the physical memory remapped
>> from (4G-512M, 4G) to (32G, 32G+512M)?
>
> The linux kernel can only use the memory passed to it by the BIOS.
> Sometimes they need special BIOS setup options to enable remapping. If
> there are no such options and you can't upgrade it you're out of luck

Hm, wouldn't the given e820 map and mtrr listing indicate that 512M were
actually remapped to 32G+ in this case?

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								Arne.
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