From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
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Subject: Re: [TECH TOPIC] Reaching consensus on CONFIG_HIGHMEM phaseout
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:33:05 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <640041197.22387.1757536385810.JavaMail.zimbra@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dec53524-97ee-4e56-8795-c7549c295fac@sr71.net>
Dave,
----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Dave Hansen" <dave@sr71.net>
>> Even with a new memory split, which could utilize most of the
>> available memory, I expect there to be issues with various
>> applications and FPGA device drivers.
> I'd be really curious what the _actual_ issues would be with a
> non-standard split. There are a lot of "maybe" problems and solutions
> here, but it's hard to move forward without known practical problems to
> tackle.
>
> Has anybody run into actual end user visible problems when using one of
> weirdo PAGE_OFFSET configs?
In the past I saw that programs such as the Java Runtime (JRE) ran into
address space limitations due to a 2G/2G split on embedded systems.
Reverting to a 3G/1G split fixed the problems.
Thanks,
//richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-10 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-09 21:23 Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-09 21:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-09-09 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-09-09 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-09-10 1:06 ` René Herman
2025-09-10 1:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-09-10 9:49 ` Linus Walleij
2025-09-10 12:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-10 12:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-10 13:10 ` Linus Walleij
2025-09-10 14:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-09-10 15:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-10 14:04 ` Richard Weinberger
2025-09-10 16:34 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-10 20:33 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2025-09-10 21:56 ` René Herman
2025-09-12 10:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-12 12:46 ` Linus Walleij
2025-10-06 20:15 ` Richard Weinberger
2025-09-10 17:11 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-09-10 19:37 ` Richard Weinberger
2025-09-11 5:38 ` Andreas Larsson
2025-09-11 7:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-12 9:32 ` Andreas Larsson
2025-09-12 9:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-09-12 10:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-12 9:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-09-12 13:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-09-12 16:49 ` Nicolas Ferre
2025-09-12 21:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-17 12:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-18 13:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-18 13:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-09-18 16:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-18 16:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-09-19 7:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-09-19 14:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-19 14:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-22 6:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-22 17:05 ` Nicolas Schichan
2025-09-22 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2025-09-19 14:41 ` Nicolas Ferre
2025-09-19 14:22 ` Nicolas Ferre
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