riscv32 EXT4 splat, 6.8 regression?

[Nam Cao]

On 2024-04-17 Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:36:39AM +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> > 
> > However, I am confused about one thing: doesn't this make one page of
> > physical memory inaccessible?  
> 
> So are these riscv32 systems really having multiple terabytes of
> memory?  Why is this page in the physical memory map in the first
> place?

It's 32 bit, so it doesn't take much to fill up the entire address space.

Here's the memory layout from kernel boot log:

[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[    0.000000]       fixmap : 0x9c800000 - 0x9d000000   (8192 kB)
[    0.000000]       pci io : 0x9d000000 - 0x9e000000   (  16 MB)
[    0.000000]      vmemmap : 0x9e000000 - 0xa0000000   (  32 MB)
[    0.000000]      vmalloc : 0xa0000000 - 0xc0000000   ( 512 MB)
[    0.000000]       lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0x00000000   (1024 MB)

Note that lowmem occupies the last 1GB, including ERR_PTR (the last
address wraps to zero)

Best regards,
Nam