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Add a call to the new function to "adjust" the current fixed UV memory block size of 2GB so it can be changed to a different physical boundary. This accommodates changes in the Intel BIOS, and therefore UV BIOS, which now can align boundaries different than the previous UV standard of 2GB. It also flags any UV Global Address boundaries from BIOS that cause a change in the mem block size (boundary). The current boundary of 2GB has been used on UV since the first system release in 2009 with Linux 2.6 and has worked fine. But the new NVDIMM persistent memory modules (PMEM), along with the Intel BIOS changes to support these modules caused the memory block size boundary to be set to a lower limit. Intel only guarantees that this minimum boundary at 64MB though the current Linux limit is 128MB. Note that the default remains 2GB if no changes occur. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@hpe.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@hpe.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: mhocko@suse.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20180524201711.732785782@stormcage.americas.sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.