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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:24:09 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_malloc.c
Message-ID:  <3EE6BCF9.8070205@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200306110518.h5B5IxpV070799@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200306110518.h5B5IxpV070799@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Paul Saab wrote:
> ps          2003/06/10 22:18:59 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_malloc.c 
>   Log:
>   Don't overflow when calculating vm_kmem_size.  This fixes kmem_map
>   too small panics on PAE machines which have odd > 4GB sizes (4.5 gig
>   would render a 20MB of KVA for kmem_map instead of 200MB).
>   
>   Submitted by:   John Cagle <john.cagle@hp.com>, jeff
>   Reviewed by:    jeff, peter, scottl, lots of USENIX folks
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.126     +4 -4      src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c
> 

Please MFC this to RELENG_5_1.  It's a pretty fatal flaw for anyone
wanting to run PAE, and is low risk for the !PAE case.

Scott



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