linux-stable/arch
Mark Lord 975b3d3d5b [PATCH] VMSPLIT config options
Enable selection of different user/kernel VM splits for i386, including an
optimized mode for 1GB physical RAM, which gives the kernel a direct (non
HIGHMEM) mapping to the entire 1GB rather than just the first 896MB.

There is a similarly a similarly optimized mode for machines with exactly 2GB
of physical RAM.

This can speed up the kernel by avoiding having to create/destroy temporary
HIGHMEM mappings, and by not having to include HIGHMEM support at all on such
machines.  The flip side is that there's less virtual addressing left for
userspace in these alternatives, and some binary-only kernel modules may
misbehave unless rebuilt with the same VMSPLIT option as the main kernel
image.

Original idea/patch from Jens Axboe, modified based on suggestions from Linus
et al.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:21 -08:00
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alpha [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core 2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
arm [ARM] 3289/1: Enable the LCD support for Integrator/CP 2006-01-28 20:54:50 +00:00
arm26 [PATCH] arm26: s/task_threas_info/task_thread_info/ 2006-01-16 23:15:27 -08:00
cris [PATCH] cris: task_thread_info() 2006-01-12 09:08:58 -08:00
frv [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV 2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] h8300: task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] VMSPLIT config options 2006-02-01 08:53:21 -08:00
ia64 [IA64-SGI] Add PROM feature set for device flush list 2006-01-26 13:50:40 -08:00
m32r [PATCH] m32r: task_pt_regs(), task_stack_page(), task_thread_info() 2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
m68k [PATCH] m68k: console code in head.S needs framebuffer support built in 2006-01-12 09:09:06 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
mips [PATCH] mips: gdb-stub.c: fix parse error before ; token 2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
parisc [PATCH] e1000: Added disable packet split capability 2006-01-18 16:17:57 -05:00
powerpc [PATCH] powerpc: Fix sigmask handling in sys_sigsuspend. 2006-02-01 08:53:19 -08:00
ppc [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix for building as a module 2006-01-27 11:09:24 -05:00
s390 [PATCH] s390: cputime misaccounting 2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
sh [PATCH] sh: machine_halt()/machine_power_off() cleanups 2006-02-01 08:53:20 -08:00
sh64 [PATCH] arch/sh64/kernel/time.c: add module.h 2006-02-01 08:53:20 -08:00
sparc [SPARC]: Fix compile failures in math-emu. 2006-01-30 16:46:24 -08:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Kill compat_sys_clock_settime sign extension stub. 2006-01-30 01:31:09 -08:00
um [PATCH] uml: compilation fix when MODE_SKAS disabled 2006-02-01 08:53:12 -08:00
v850 [PATCH] v850: task_stack_page(), task_pt_regs() 2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
x86_64 [PATCH] Add faster __iowrite32_copy routine for x86_64 2006-02-01 08:53:13 -08:00
xtensa [PATCH] xtensa: task_pt_regs(), task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00