From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Feb 13 16:23:49 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 180E737B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D1243FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:23:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1E0Nk1o030623; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:23:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1E0NkKQ001272; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:23:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1E0NksG001271; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:23:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:23:46 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Arun Sharma Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxmem should be bytes ? Message-ID: <20030214002346.GA1267@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200302080111.h181Bkr26574@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:18:20PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote: > 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. Such as? -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message