From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964892AbWDZVkO (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:40:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964894AbWDZVkN (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:40:13 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.197]:42117 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964892AbWDZVkM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:40:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PDJtRtzY2Z9yOYsfV8+s/WcS/9D8zXEyVIpqwsNd1UsAMPjxhBnbS+vnPGe7f0WeIbWw2cEFMGMDHmYv54MTDdB/QgrSjUA/7jNIPQmuiH3YzYfaNL/bUPEwM+zMJYbKcTQu3z/d2DHQOjM9xs/b2FK+J6cxmBQkPqK3HvVow4w= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:40:11 -0600 From: "David Wilk" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of Cc: "Chris Wright" , "Greg KH" , "Marcelo Tosatti" , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060421192743.GH3061@sorel.sous-sol.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In defense of having that option available, this was not a case where the user was deliberately trying to set that option, but rather that it somehow got set accidentally (still a bit of a mystery as I was not modifying configs at the time). On 26 Apr 2006 07:12:43 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > "David Wilk" writes: > > > Ok, I think I need to apologize to everyone here. I have found the > > problem, and it is not with your patch, Hugh. For some reason, the > > config for my 2.6.16.7 source tree had a 1G/3G user/kernel split > > configured. This is very bizaar as I copy my .config from tree to > > tree to avoid any changes in the configuration of my test kernels. > > This just shows this dreaded VMSPLIT config was a bad idea in the first > place. There was a reason we didn't have it for such a long time (too > many users get it wrong) and such occurrences just show again that this > is still true. > > IMHO it would be best to just remove that option again and require > users who really want to change this to patch their kernels again. > > At the very least it should be probably made dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. > > -Andi > > Mark VMSPLIT EMBEDDED > > Too many users get it wrong. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen > > Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig > +++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig > @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ endchoice > > choice > depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_PAE > - prompt "Memory split" > + prompt "Memory split" if EMBEDDED > default VMSPLIT_3G > help > Select the desired split between kernel and user memory. >