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| author | Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> | 2009-09-21 17:03:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -0700 |
| commit | 4481374ce88ba8f460c8b89f2572027bd27057d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6896601b6a1da0e3e932ffa75fcff966c834c02c /include | |
| parent | 4738e1b9cf8f9e28d7de080a5e6ce5d0095ea18f (diff) | |
mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages. The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.
Some of the calculations (i.e. those not intending to use high memory)
should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index d808cf832c4..19ff81c49ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ extern unsigned long max_mapnr; #endif extern unsigned long num_physpages; +extern unsigned long totalram_pages; extern void * high_memory; extern int page_cluster; |