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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/Kconfig | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index 361aca8b3ec..0790bdf8c1f 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ config HIGHMEM4G config HIGHMEM64G bool "64GB" depends on !M386 && !M486 + select X86_PAE help Select this if you have a 32-bit processor and more than 4 gigabytes of physical RAM. @@ -577,12 +578,12 @@ choice config VMSPLIT_3G bool "3G/1G user/kernel split" config VMSPLIT_3G_OPT - depends on !HIGHMEM + depends on !X86_PAE bool "3G/1G user/kernel split (for full 1G low memory)" config VMSPLIT_2G bool "2G/2G user/kernel split" config VMSPLIT_2G_OPT - depends on !HIGHMEM + depends on !X86_PAE bool "2G/2G user/kernel split (for full 2G low memory)" config VMSPLIT_1G bool "1G/3G user/kernel split" @@ -602,10 +603,15 @@ config HIGHMEM default y config X86_PAE - bool - depends on HIGHMEM64G - default y + bool "PAE (Physical Address Extension) Support" + default n + depends on !HIGHMEM4G select RESOURCES_64BIT + help + PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables + larger swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It + has the cost of more pagetable lookup overhead, and also + consumes more pagetable space per process. # Common NUMA Features config NUMA diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c index 2986b48a823..d474cd639bc 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c @@ -273,18 +273,18 @@ unsigned long __init find_max_low_pfn(void) printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only %ldMB will be used.\n", MAXMEM>>20); if (max_pfn > MAX_NONPAE_PFN) - printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a PAE enabled kernel.\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.\n"); else printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.\n"); max_pfn = MAXMEM_PFN; #else /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM */ -#ifndef CONFIG_X86_PAE +#ifndef CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G if (max_pfn > MAX_NONPAE_PFN) { max_pfn = MAX_NONPAE_PFN; printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning only 4GB will be used.\n"); - printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a PAE enabled kernel.\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "Use a HIGHMEM64G enabled kernel.\n"); } -#endif /* !CONFIG_X86_PAE */ +#endif /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G */ #endif /* !CONFIG_HIGHMEM */ } else { if (highmem_pages == -1) |