Re: [PATCH] sparc64: valid physical address bitmap

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David Miller wrote:	[Thu Sep 18 2014, 01:13:22PM EDT]
> From: Bob Picco <bpicco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:16:06 -0400
> 
> > The machine has more reg property entries than this kernel can
> > support (32).
> 
> Bob, is there some upper bound we can use?  I'm happy to enlarge it
> to whatever reasonable size is necessary.
I just sent an email because my knowledge isn't LDOM guest.
> 
> The 'memory' node properties are the one thing I don't think we can
> reasonably dynamically allocate memory for, so they have to be
> statically sized.
I agree.
> 
> With the changes we are discussing here, we are getting several
> megabytes of BSS space back in the kernel image, so there is lots
> of room for expanding the value of MAX_BANKS :-)
Indeed.
> 
> Also, that debugging message from read_obp_memory() should also
> print out "ents" so we know how much we might need to expand it
> in the future.
Yes.
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