Re: [PATCH 04/13] x86, mm: Revert back good_end setting for 64bit

[Eric W. Biederman]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 10/05/2012 02:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> with bzImage or vmlinux?
>>
>> bzImage I presume.  Certainly the bzImage has lost it's 896M limit,
>> which is where ultimiately the 896M limite came from.
>>
>
> ~896M (actually comes from i386, not from bzImage...

Right it was 1G - VMALLLOC_SIZE.

At some point that affected the boot protocol as the maximum address we
could load ramdisks.

Eric
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