Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:03:26 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of |
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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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