Re: Discontinuous memory!!

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Thu, 1 Nov 2001 02:06:32 +0100


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:11:43PM +0800, Green wrote:

> I am porting Linux to R3912.
>
> There are two memory block on my target board.
>
> One is 16MB from 0x8000 0000 to 0x8100 0000.
>
> The other one is 16MB from 0x8200 0000 to 0x8300 0000.
>
> But I found kernel just managed the first memory block.
>
> How could I modify the kernel to support 32MB discontinuous memory?
>
> Now I am trying to add entries to page table.
> It will halt at decompressing ramdisk.
>
> Has anyone resolve this kind of problem before?

The kernel support this type of memory architecture if you enable
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM. One machine which uses this feature is the Origin,
grep in arch/mips64 for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM. There are also several
ARM system using it.

As support for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM is less than perfect you should check
if your system allows for reconfiguration of memory as a single physically
contiguous chunk.

Don't use add_memory_region() in this case; that code only works well
for small holes in memory address space. Your holes are fairly large
so memory management would waste about 2mb if you would not use
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM.

Ralf
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