Re: [PATCH 03/14] x86, config: change defaults PHYSICAL_START and PHYSICAL_ALIGN

2009-05-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:26:51PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: From: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Change the default for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START to 16 MB; 4 MB if EMBEDDED. Change the default for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to match up with a large page alignment datum (4 MB for non-PAE, 2 MB for

Re: [PATCH 03/14] x86, config: change defaults PHYSICAL_START and PHYSICAL_ALIGN

2009-05-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sam Ravnborg s...@ravnborg.org wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:26:51PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: From: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Change the default for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START to 16 MB; 4 MB if EMBEDDED. Change the default for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to match up with a large

Re: [PATCH 03/14] x86, config: change defaults PHYSICAL_START and PHYSICAL_ALIGN

2009-05-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Sam Ravnborg wrote: diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 039c3f0..13b3a5a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1455,17 +1455,20 @@ config KEXEC_JUMP config PHYSICAL_START hex Physical address where the kernel is loaded if (EMBEDDED ||

[PATCH 03/14] x86, config: change defaults PHYSICAL_START and PHYSICAL_ALIGN

2009-05-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
From: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Change the default for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START to 16 MB; 4 MB if EMBEDDED. Change the default for CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN to match up with a large page alignment datum (4 MB for non-PAE, 2 MB for PAE.) The default of 16 MB is designed to avoid occupying ZONE_DMA,