From: "James C. Georgas" <jgeorgas@georgas.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: HIMEM calculation
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:19:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188857974.6090.19.camel@Tachyon.home> (raw)
I'm not sure I understand how the kernel calculates the amount of
physical RAM it can map during the boot process.
I've quoted two blocks of kernel messages below, one for a kernel with
NOHIGHMEM and another for a kernel with HIGHMEM4G.
If I do the math on the BIOS provided physical RAM map, there is less
than 5MiB of the address space reserved. Since I only have 1GiB of
physical RAM in the board, I figured that it would still be possible to
physically map 1019MiB, even with the 3GiB/1GiB split between user space
and kernel space that occurs with NOHIGHMEM.
However, What actually happens is that I'm 127MiB short of a full GiB.
What am I missing here? Why does that last 127MiB have to go in HIGHMEM?
Message log for a NOHIGHMEM kernel:
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: Linux version 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 (root@Tachyon) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1)) #2 PREEMPT Mon Sep 3 16:01:08 EDT 2007
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffd3000 (usable)
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000003ffd3000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used.
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: Zone PFN ranges:
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: DMA 0 -> 4096
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: Normal 4096 -> 229376
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: 0: 0 -> 229376
Sep 3 16:56:50 Tachyon kernel: DMI 2.3 present.
Message log for a HIGHMEM4G kernel:
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffd3000 (usable)
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000003ffd3000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: 127MB HIGHMEM available.
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available.
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: Zone PFN ranges:
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: DMA 0 -> 4096
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: Normal 4096 -> 229376
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: HighMem 229376 -> 262099
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: 0: 0 -> 262099
Sep 3 17:40:53 Tachyon kernel: DMI 2.3 present.
next reply other threads:[~2007-09-03 23:14 UTC|newest]
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2007-09-03 22:19 James C. Georgas [this message]
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2007-09-04 12:48 ` Chris Snook
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