David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem is that for the non-virtualized case this patch bloats up > the BSS section to be more than 8MB in size. Sparc64 kernel images > cannot be more than 8MB in size total due to various boot loader and > firmware limitations.
I recently ran into a similar problem with x86-64 and large BSS from lockdep conflicting with a 16MB kdump kernel. Solution was to do another early allocator before bootmem and then move the tables into there. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/