Date: 13 Feb 2003 16:18:20 -0800 From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxmem should be bytes ? Message-ID: <u1y2b3eb7.fsf@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200302080111.h181Bkr26574@unix-os.sc.intel.com> References: <200302080111.h181Bkr26574@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
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Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> writes:
> I found that my VHPT size was limited to 2**15 no matter how much
> memory I had. I tracked this down to the code in machdep.c:598.
>
> physmem is in units of pages and Maxmem is the number of bytes. This
> incorrect assignment results in a small VHPT size.
I didn't see a response to this message. While VHPT < 2**15 isn't a
huge issue, this bug could result in other correctness problems.
-Arun
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