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The size of vmalloc area depends from various factors on boot and could be set to: 1. Default size as determined by VMALLOC_DEFAULT_SIZE macro; 2. One half of the virtual address space not occupied by modules and fixed mappings; 3. The size provided by user with vmalloc= kernel command line parameter; In cases [1] and [2] the vmalloc area base address is aligned on Region3 table type boundary, while in case [3] in might get aligned on page boundary. Limit the waste of page tables and always align vmalloc area size and base address on segment boundary. Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
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 Restructured Text 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.