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

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