From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 03:49:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0762B16A4CE; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A6843D46; Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:49:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.0.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8B3oLoa020319; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:50:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <41427524.1020601@samsco.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:46:44 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040831 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl References: <200409110131.i8B1VQLd076558@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040911034621.GA70947@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040911034621.GA70947@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include pmap.h src/sys/amd64/include pmap.h X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 03:49:43 -0000 Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:31:26AM +0000, Scott Long wrote: > >>scottl 2004-09-11 01:31:26 UTC >> >> FreeBSD src repository >> >> Modified files: >> sys/i386/include pmap.h >> sys/amd64/include pmap.h >> Log: >> Double the number of kernel page tables for amd64 and for i386/PAE. The old >> value was only enough for 8GB of RAM, the new value can do 16GB. This still >> isn't optimal since it doesn't scale. Fixing this for amd64 looks to be >> fairly easy, but for i386 will be quite difficult. >> >> Reviewed by: peter >> > > > Does this fix the panic in > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-August/035172.html > It may. However, if you have the ATA driver loaded it will also cause memory allocation problems in >4GB systems also. Soeren recently committed a fix for that. Scott