Hello, On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 4:45 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2011, Andy Green wrote: > > but your suggestion is more elegant. I'm unsure of the ramifications of > > the 2G / 2G scheme so I'll give it a try later. > > WFIW, the main reason why people don't want the 2G/2G split is to allow > user space application to grow to 3GB instead of limiting them to 2GB > per task. Most applications are fine with 2GB, but some can run out > of address space and die a little sooner. However, those are typically > the ones that really want a 64 bit machine anyway. I know, I just suggested it as a workaround of the current CMA initialization bug. The other temporary solution is to enable DMA zone and set it to some high value (like 512MiB). Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski Samsung Poland R&D Center _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
