From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Feb 13 16:18:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E605337B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:18:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.sc.intel.com (fmr03.intel.com [143.183.121.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2268743F93 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:18:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adsharma@unix-os.sc.intel.com) Received: from talaria.sc.intel.com (talaria.sc.intel.com [10.3.253.5]) by hermes.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: outer.mc,v 1.51 2002/09/23 20:43:23 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id h1E0G5318132 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:16:05 GMT Received: from unix-os.sc.intel.com (unix-os.sc.intel.com [143.183.96.244]) by talaria.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/d: inner.mc,v 1.28 2003/01/13 19:44:39 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id h1E0EGu22637 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 00:14:16 GMT Received: from unix-os.sc.intel.com.intel.com (adsharma-mobl3.sc.intel.com [143.183.130.145] (may be forged)) by unix-os.sc.intel.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id h1E0ILr18187 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:18:21 -0800 To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxmem should be bytes ? References: <200302080111.h181Bkr26574@unix-os.sc.intel.com> From: Arun Sharma Date: 13 Feb 2003 16:18:20 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200302080111.h181Bkr26574@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Arun Sharma 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message