[PATCH] x86: enable VMSPLIT for highmem kernels
The current VMSPLIT Kconfig option is disabled whenever highmem is on. This is a bit screwy because the people who need to change VMSPLIT the most tend to be the ones with highmem and constrained lowmem. So, remove the highmem dependency. But, re-include the dependency for the "full 1GB of lowmem" option. You can't have the full 1GB of lowmem and highmem because of the need for the vmalloc(), kmap(), etc... areas. I thought there would be at least a bit of tweaking to do to get it to work, but everything seems OK. Boot tested on a 4GB x86 machine, and a 12GB 3-node NUMA-Q: elm3b82:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3695412 kB MemFree: 3659540 kB ... LowTotal: 2909008 kB LowFree: 2892324 kB ... elm3b82:~# zgrep PAE /proc/config.gz CONFIG_X86_PAE=y larry:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 11845900 kB MemFree: 11786748 kB ... LowTotal: 2855180 kB LowFree: 2830092 kB Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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