From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SHMLBA and compat tasks
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:16:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040301201613.GA13349@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16451.37325.109790.457348@napali.hpl.hp.com>
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:41:01AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
>
> I assume you're asking me here (too many David's!).
Virtual name cache aliasing ? :)
> The answer is that it's NOT OK to force 1MB alignment for IA-32 tasks.
> It'll eat up address space like there is no tomorrow. In fact, the
> reason the code is there is because some versions of the open-office
> installer used to crash due to address-space exhaustion. Probably a
> bug in open-office, but the point is that for ia32-emulation purposes,
> we want/need to be bug-for-bug compatible with x86.
Sounds like we have sufficient grounds for using different alignment
rules for different architectures ?
-Arun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-28 1:41 SHMLBA and compat tasks Arun Sharma
2004-02-28 23:55 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-29 2:11 ` Arun Sharma
2004-03-01 5:57 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-01 19:33 ` Arun Sharma
2004-03-01 19:41 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-01 20:11 ` David S. Miller
2004-03-01 20:17 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-01 20:16 ` Arun Sharma [this message]
2004-03-01 20:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-02 19:43 ` Arun Sharma
2004-03-06 2:37 ` Arun Sharma
2004-03-06 7:39 ` David S. Miller
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