Allow non-PMD-aligned PAGE_OFFSET
Release: 2.4.19 United Linux
Developer: Dave Hansen
Patched against: 2.4.19 UL
Co-reqs / Pre-reqs: UL kernel
Changelog:
I did this for 2.5, and I've done a functional backport to the 2.4 UL kernel. It's ugly, and doesn't free the bootmem in zap_low_mappings(), but it works. It allows me to use up to a 3.75:0.25 split with PAE. I also booted it with 3.5:0.5. I guess a particular database/hardware vendor has a memory hole requiring the use of PAE on boxes with only 4GB phys. They still wanted the 3.5:0.5 split. elm3b82:~# uname -r 2.4.19-64GB-SMP elm3b82:~# cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 3874070528 26759168 3847311360 0 1335296 7598080 Swap: 0 0 0 MemTotal: 3783272 kB MemFree: 3757140 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 1304 kB Cached: 7420 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 4032 kB Inactive: 6680 kB HighTotal: 3702756 kB HighFree: 3692080 kB LowTotal: 80516 kB LowFree: 65060 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB