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[PATCH] tune vmalloc size
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 17 Sep 2004 05:17:02 +0000 (22:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Fri, 17 Sep 2004 05:17:02 +0000 (22:17 -0700)
commit8cc3d21cc33c150b706d806adabab518b928a9b9
treefeffa6e806146166a5e2b973c9ed993b3ee39680
parent6ebae79a9bf16b2dac4ef4910de28ee3c2f3022b
[PATCH] tune vmalloc size

There are a few devices that use lots of ioremap space.  vmalloc space is a
showstopper problem for them.

this patch adds the vmalloc=<size> boot parameter to override
__VMALLOC_RESERVE.  The default is 128mb right now - e.g.  vmalloc=256m
doubles the size.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/i386/boot/setup.S
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
arch/i386/mm/init.c
include/asm-i386/page.h
mm/vmalloc.c