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i386: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G
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PAE is useful for more than supporting more than 4GB RAM.  It supports
expanded swapspace and NX executable protections.  Some users may want NX
or expanded swapspace support without the overhead or instability of
highmem.  For these reasons, the following patch divorces CONFIG_X86_PAE
from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.

Cc: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Signed-off-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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William Lee Irwin III authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 22, 2007
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16 changes: 11 additions & 5 deletions arch/i386/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ config HIGHMEM4G
config HIGHMEM64G
bool "64GB"
depends on !M386 && !M486
select X86_PAE
help
Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4
gigabytes of physical RAM.
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config VMSPLIT_3G
bool "3G/1G user/kernel split"
config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT
depends on !HIGHMEM
depends on !X86_PAE
bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)"
config VMSPLIT_2G
bool "2G/2G user/kernel split"
config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT
depends on !HIGHMEM
depends on !X86_PAE
bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)"
config VMSPLIT_1G
bool "1G/3G user/kernel split"
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default y

config X86_PAE
bool
depends on HIGHMEM64G
default y
bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support"
default n
depends on !HIGHMEM4G
select RESOURCES_64BIT
help
PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables
larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It
has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also
consumes more pagetable space per process.

# Common NUMA Features
config NUMA
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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
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Expand Up @@ -273,18 +273,18 @@ unsigned long __init find_max_low_pfn(void)
printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only %ldMB will be used.\n",
MAXMEM>>20);
if (max_pfn > MAX_NONPAE_PFN)
printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a PAE enabled kernel.\n");
printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.\n");
else
printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.\n");
max_pfn = MAXMEM_PFN;
#else /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM */
#ifndef CONFIG_X86_PAE
#ifndef CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G
if (max_pfn > MAX_NONPAE_PFN) {
max_pfn = MAX_NONPAE_PFN;
printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only 4GB will be used.\n");
printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a PAE enabled kernel.\n");
printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.\n");
}
#endif /* !CONFIG_X86_PAE */
#endif /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G */
#endif /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM */
} else {
if (highmem_pages == -1)
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