From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:56:51 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Don't try to put kernel page tables beyond ZONE_DMA32. X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee408c79420b6a437332d6977fe33ab72c36dc97;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git [PATCH] x86_64: Don't try to put kernel page tables beyond ZONE_DMA32. For not fully explained reasons it broke mem=... on several setups. Also minor cleanup. Cc: axboe@suse.de Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c index eca60125efc3..ef84106c1509 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c @@ -262,19 +262,11 @@ static void __init find_early_table_space(unsigned long end) tables = round_up(puds * sizeof(pud_t), PAGE_SIZE) + round_up(pmds * sizeof(pmd_t), PAGE_SIZE); - /* Put page tables beyond the DMA zones if possible. - RED-PEN might be better to spread them out more over - memory to avoid hotspots */ - if (end > MAX_DMA32_PFN< MAX_DMA_PFN << PAGE_SHIFT) - start = MAX_DMA_PFN << PAGE_SHIFT; - else - start = 0x8000; - - table_start = find_e820_area(start, end, tables); - if (table_start == -1) - table_start = find_e820_area(0x8000, end, tables); + /* RED-PEN putting page tables only on node 0 could + cause a hotspot and fill up ZONE_DMA. The page tables + need roughly 0.5KB per GB. */ + start = 0x8000; + table_start = find_e820_area(start, end, tables); if (table_start == -1UL) panic("Cannot find space for the kernel page tables");