[PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space

[chrisw at osdl.org (Chris Wright)]

* Zachary Amsden (zach@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hmm.  I was thinking it would be compile time variable with defaults -- like
> 
> config MEMORY_HOLE
>       int "Create hole at top of memory (0-512 MB)"
>       range 0 512
>       default "0"
>       default 168 if (CONFIG_X86_PAE && CONFIG_X86_HYPERVISOR)
>       default 64 if (!CONFIG_X86_PAE && CONFIG_X86_HYPERVISOR)

That's fine, I had done some braindead math anyway ;-)

>       help
>          Useful for creating a hole in the top of memory when running
>          inside of a virtual machine monitor.
> 
> Adding things to the fixmap is a separate concept, thus a separate patch ;)

Sure, good point.

thanks,
-chris