On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:50PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:

On recent kernels, with some debug options like for instance
CONFIG_LOCKDEP, the BSS requires more than 8M memory, allthough
the kernel code fits in the first 8M.
Today, it is necessary to activate CONFIG_PIN_TLB to get more than 8M
at startup, allthough pinning TLB is not necessary for that.

This patch adds a second 8M page to the initial mapping in order to
have 16M mapped regardless of CONFIG_PIN_TLB, like several other
32 bits PPC (40x, 601, ...)

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
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Is the assumption that nobody is still running 8xx systems with only 8
MiB RAM on current kernels?

-Scott