UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS=48
On NUMA implementations of Cavium ThunderX, node1 memory addresses start with bit 40 set to 1, and therefore requires >= 41 bits of VA. A side effect of this is an increase from 3 to 4 page table levels. Note: The alternative way to increase VA bits w/o moving to 4 level page tables would be to adopt a larger page size. That would have a far more significant impact to memory usage, and is known to have issue with current Ubuntu userspace: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2014-December/038572.html http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1520162Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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