From: Ryan Cumming <ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>,
jmerkey@comcast.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jmerkey@drdos.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:40:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408260140.18328.ryan@spitfire.gotdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040826044954.GP2793@holomorphy.com>
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On Wednesday 25 August 2004 21:49, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> William> ELF ABI violation. "...the reserved area shall not
> William> consume more than 1GB of the address space."
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:46:43PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Agreed, but I do like running with PAGE_OFFSET == 0xB0000000 on my
> > main box, which has 1 GB of RAM. I can avoid highmem and still use
> > the last 128 MB of RAM. It takes me about 3 seconds to edit
> > <asm/page.h> when I build a new kernel so I'm not arguing for merging
> > this, though.
>
> Though asinine, the ABI spec is set in stone.
And at least one app (valgrind) chokes with as little as 1.25G of reserved
space.
-Ryan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-26 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-26 4:21 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM) jmerkey
2004-08-26 4:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 4:46 ` Roland Dreier
2004-08-26 4:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 8:40 ` Ryan Cumming [this message]
2004-08-29 12:48 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 16:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-29 15:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 17:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 4:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-08-26 4:42 ` Roland Dreier
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2004-08-26 20:24 jmerkey
2004-08-26 20:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 21:41 ` Dave Jones
2004-08-26 21:08 jmerkey
2004-08-26 21:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-26 23:47 linux
2004-08-30 4:01 jmerkey
2004-08-30 4:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-30 5:56 jmerkey
2004-08-30 18:10 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-08-30 18:28 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-22 18:52 ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-22 18:51 ` Roland Dreier
2004-09-22 20:22 ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-27 14:55 ` Roland Dreier
2004-08-31 22:50 jmerkey
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