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In case vmemmap array could overlap with vmalloc area on virtual memory layout setup, the size of vmalloc area is decreased. That could result in less memory than user requested with vmalloc= kernel command line parameter. Instead, reduce the size of identity mapping (and the size of vmemmap array as result) to avoid such overlap. Further, currently the virtual memmory allocation "rolls" from top to bottom and it is only VMALLOC_START that could get increased due to the overlap. Change that to decrease- only, which makes the whole allocation algorithm more easy to comprehend. 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 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.