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The value specified for the memory limit is used to set a restriction on memory usage. It is important to ensure that this restriction is within the linear map kernel address space range. The hash page table translation uses a 16MB page size to map the kernel linear map address space. htab_bolt_mapping() function aligns down the size of the range while mapping kernel linear address space. Since the memblock limit is enforced very early during boot, before we can detect the type of memory translation (radix vs hash), we align the memory limit value specified as a kernel parameter to 16MB. This alignment value will work for both hash and radix translations. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V (IBM) <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Acked-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://msgid.link/20240403083611.172833-1-aneesh.kumar@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.