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authorYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>2009-03-12 16:04:42 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-03-14 17:23:47 -0700
commit7543c1de84ed93c6769c9f20dced08a522af8912 (patch)
treedbeab0ab071b86c80b4d7c2701c7b767616772a6 /arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h
parent6de6cb442e76bbaf2e685150be8ddac0f237a59c (diff)
x86-32: compute initial mapping size more accurately
Impact: simplification We only need to map the kernel in head_32.S, not the whole of lowmem. We use 512MB as a reasonable (but arbitrary) limit on the maximum size of the kernel image. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h
index f1e4a79a6e41..0f915ae649a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/page_32_types.h
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
#define __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT 32
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_PAE */
+/*
+ * Kernel image size is limited to 512 MB (see in arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S)
+ */
+#define KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE (512 * 1024 * 1024)
+
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
/*