[PATCH] x86 PAE swapspace expansion
PAE is artificially limited in terms of swapspace to the same bitsplit as ordinary i386, a 5/24 split (32 swapfiles, 64GB max swapfile size), when a 5/27 split (32 swapfiles, 512GB max swapfile size) is feasible. This patch transparently removes that limitation by using more of the space available in PAE's wider ptes for swap ptes. While this is obviously not likely to be used directly, it is important from the standpoint of strict non-overcommit, where the swapspace must be potentially usable in order to be reserved for non-overcommit. There are workloads with Committed_AS of over 256GB on ia32 PAE wanting strict non-overcommit to prevent being OOM killed. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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