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[PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128

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The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on
the number of e820 entries.  But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32.
With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries
reaching close to 32.  Patch below bumps the number upto 128.

The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820).
As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect
on bootloader-setup code interface.

Patch covers both i386 and x86-64.

Tested on:
* grub booting bzImage
* lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled
* pxeboot of bzImage

Side-effect:
bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K
on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-05-01 08:58:51 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent be9e68703c
commit f9ba70535d
10 changed files with 18 additions and 18 deletions
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
#define EDDNR 0x1e9 /* addr of number of edd_info structs at EDDBUF
in boot_params - treat this as 1 byte */
#define EDDBUF 0x600 /* addr of edd_info structs in boot_params */
#define EDDBUF 0xd00 /* addr of edd_info structs in boot_params */
#define EDDMAXNR 6 /* number of edd_info structs starting at EDDBUF */
#define EDDEXTSIZE 8 /* change these if you muck with the structures */
#define EDDPARMSIZE 74