Re: riscv32 EXT4 splat, 6.8 regression?

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Tue Apr 16 2024 - 14:19:31 EST


On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 05:31:51PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 07:19:27PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > "last page of the first gigabyte" - why first gigabyte? Do you mean
> > > last page of *last* gigabyte?
> >
> > With 3G-1G split linear map can map only 1G from 0xc0000000 to 0xffffffff
> > (or 0x00000000 with 32-bit overflow):
> >
> > [ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0x00000000 (1024 MB)
>
> ... but you can't map that much. You need to reserve space for (may not
> be exhaustive):
>
> - PCI BARs (or other MMIO)
> - vmap
> - kmap
> - percpu
> - ioremap
> - modules
> - fixmap
> - Maybe EFI runtime services?
>
> You'll be lucky to get 800MB of ZONE_NORMAL.

But that does not mean that the last page won't get to the buddy

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.