About SECTION_SIZE_BITS for Sparsemem

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jul 12 06:13:12 EDT 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 07:08:11PM +0900, Kyungmin Park wrote:
> 27 for our board. 28 for generic.
> 
> Note that I enabled HIGHMEM and modify the VMALLOC_END to 0xd000'0000
> to test HIGHMEM.

If you want to test HIGHMEM, the way to do it is to specify a vmalloc=
parameter to the kernel, not to modify VMALLOC_END.

> Universal # bdinfo
> arch_number = 0x00000B2E
> env_t       = 0x00000000
> boot_params = 0x30000100
> DRAM bank   = 0x00000000
> -> start    = 0x30000000
> -> size     = 0x05000000
> DRAM bank   = 0x00000001
> -> start    = 0x40000000
> -> size     = 0x18000000

28 will work for this too.



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