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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-06-06 10:21:39 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-06-10 12:31:20 +0200
commitce8e37cdbdb34a9faeade22e0e6440f0d04560f5 (patch)
treede2fd45d521f45978808d8c7d949033cb6612556 /arch/x86/kernel/step.c
parent668231141f307ffd81db075b34bddaedae0ec863 (diff)
x86: set PAE PHYSICAL_MASK_SHIFT to 44 bits.
When a 64-bit x86 processor runs in 32-bit PAE mode, a pte can potentially have the same number of physical address bits as the 64-bit host ("Enhanced Legacy PAE Paging"). This means, in theory, we could have up to 52 bits of physical address in a pte. The 32-bit kernel uses a 32-bit unsigned long to represent a pfn. This means that it can only represent physical addresses up to 32+12=44 bits wide. Rather than widening pfns everywhere, just set 2^44 as the Linux x86_32-PAE architectural limit for physical address size. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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