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SubjectRe: [stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:12:43AM +0200, Andi Kleen 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.

NAK, EMBEDDED has a different semantics (space savings in memory limited
situations) that does not apply to this option.

> -Andi
>...

cu
Adrian

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