| Message ID | 1370012946-7374-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org (mailing list archive) |
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| State | New, archived |
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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote: > In order to utilise all of the memory located on ux500 based devices > we have to enable HIGHMEM. Without it the kernel truncates memory down > to what's left after the PAGE_OFFSET has been applied, which doesn't > leave an awful lot, especially if we're running large rootfs' such > as full Linux desktop distributions or Android. > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Patch applied, but I renamed the topic arch to u8500 as the defconfig is named as such. Yours, Linus Walleij
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig index 2d322d2..38d633a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig +++ b/arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_SWAP is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
In order to utilise all of the memory located on ux500 based devices we have to enable HIGHMEM. Without it the kernel truncates memory down to what's left after the PAGE_OFFSET has been applied, which doesn't leave an awful lot, especially if we're running large rootfs' such as full Linux desktop distributions or Android. Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> --- arch/arm/configs/u8500_defconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)