Re: [PATCH] x86: 46 bit PAE support

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Yes, struct page is ~64 bytes, and 64*64 == 4096.
> 
> Alas, it's not a problem: my suggestion wasnt to simulate 64 TB of 
> RAM. My suggestion was to create a sparse physical memory map (in a 
> virtual machine) that spreads ~1GB of RAM all around the 64 TB 
> physical address space. That will test whether the kernel is able to 
> map and work with such physical addresses. (which will cover most of 
> the issues)
> 
> A good look at /debug/x86/dump_pagetables with such a system booted 
> up would be nice as well - to make sure every virtual memory range 
> is in its proper area, and that there's enough free space around 
> them.
> 

We're working on simulating this at Intel.  We should hopefully be able
to test this next week.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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