diff -urN highmem-ref/arch/i386/config.in highmem/arch/i386/config.in
--- highmem-ref/arch/i386/config.in	Fri Apr  5 18:09:17 2002
+++ highmem/arch/i386/config.in	Fri Apr  5 18:09:44 2002
@@ -436,6 +436,9 @@
    bool '  Magic SysRq key' CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ
    bool '  Spinlock debugging' CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
    bool '  Compile the kernel with frame pointers' CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
+   if [ "$CONFIG_HIGHMEM" = "y" ]; then
+      bool '  Emulate HIGHMEM on lowmem machines' CONFIG_HIGHMEM_EMULATION
+   fi
 fi
 
 endmenu
diff -urN highmem-ref/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c highmem/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
--- highmem-ref/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	Fri Apr  5 18:09:16 2002
+++ highmem/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	Fri Apr  5 18:09:26 2002
@@ -838,7 +838,20 @@
 /*
  * Reserved space for vmalloc and iomap - defined in asm/page.h
  */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM_EMULATION
+#define ORDER_DOWN(x)	((x >> (MAX_ORDER-1)) << (MAX_ORDER-1))
+#define MAXMEM_PFN					\
+({							\
+	int __max_pfn;					\
+	if (max_pfn > PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM))			\
+	     __max_pfn = PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM);		\
+	else						\
+	     __max_pfn = ORDER_DOWN(max_pfn / 5);	\
+	__max_pfn;					\
+})
+#else
 #define MAXMEM_PFN	PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM)
+#endif
 #define MAX_NONPAE_PFN	(1 << 20)
 
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