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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Martin Bligh and Dave Hansen If a PAE machine has 1G of memory and you set PAGE_OFFSET to 2G, the kernel will only instantiate a PMD to cover the 2G-3G region. But another PMD is needed for the 3G-4G region for the APIC and possibly an extended vmalloc region. So the patch changes the code to instantiate PMDs out to the end of physical memory. It's a no-op for PAGE_OFFSET=3G, and _could_ be part of the CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET patch. But it seems a reasonable generalisation anyway.
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