when KERNLOAD is not a multiple of NBPDR (not the default) and PSE is
enabled (the default if the CPU supports it). Addresses in PDEs must
be a multiple of NBPDR in the PSE case, but were not so in the crashing
case.
KERNLOAD defaults to NBPDR. NBPDR is 4 MB for !PAE and 2 MB for PAE.
The default can be changed by editing i386/include/vmparam.h or using
makeoptions. It can be changed to less than NBPDR to save real and
virtual memory at a small cost in time, or to more than NBPDR to waste
real and virtual memory. It must be larger than 1 MB and a multiple of
PAGE_SIZE. When it is less than NBPDR, it is necessarily not a multiple
of NBPDR. This case has much larger bugs which will be fixed in part 2.
The fix is to only use PSE for physical addresses above <KERNLOAD
rounded _up_ to an NBPDR boundary>. When the rounding is non-null,
this leaves part of the kernel not using large pages. Rounding down
would avoid this pessimization, but would break setting of PAT bits
on i/o pages if it goes below 1MB. Since rounding down always goes
below 1MB when KERNLOAD < NBPDR and the KERNLOAD > NBPDR case is not
useful, never round down.
Fix related style bugs (e.g., wrong literal values for NBPDR in comments).
Reviewed by: kib
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