PAE on -current pitfalls and issues?

[Daniel Lang]

Hi Peter,

Peter Wemm wrote on Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:57:58PM -0700:
[..]
> > I just stumbled across the handbook section about PAE,
> > so this says modules are not working. I assume this is
> > still the case.
> 
> There's a gotcha with KVA_PAGES.  On a standard kernel, there are 1024 
> Page directory slots.  By default we use 256 of them for 1 out of 4GB.
> 
> On a PAE kernel, there are now 2048 page directory slots.  The same 1:3 
> split requires a default KVA_PAGES of 512.  So if you want to increase 
> KVA beyond the default 1GB, do not forget to take the scaling into 
> account.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,
 Daniel
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