Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:40:11 -0600 | From | "David Wilk" <> | Subject | Re: [stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of |
| |
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 <ak@suse.de> wrote: > "David Wilk" <davidwilk@gmail.com> 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 <ak@suse.de> > > 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. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |