From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Jon Goldberg <jgoldberg@neocore.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Porting to from Solaris 64bit to Linux 32B - 36B.
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:33:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDB48DA.2898B7FE@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L.0211192222300.4103-100000@imladris.surriel.com
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Jon Goldberg wrote:
>
> > We are currently at porting to Linux 2.4 kernel and I am having
> > troubles finding information on VM. Since the 2.4 Kernel support large
> > amount of swap < 1TB and Physical Ram < 64GB. Is there a way to get
> > memory functions like mmap to use a 64 bit pointer instead of the 32bit
> > pointer. Since a memory mapped file the file is used as swap I should
> > be able to have it map a file larger than 4GB and have the OS do the
> > page management.
>
> No, this is not possible because of fundamental reasons.
>
I think he's asking "where is mmap64()"?
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2002-11-20 0:24 ` Porting to from Solaris 64bit to Linux 32B - 36B Rik van Riel
2002-11-20 8:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-11-20 17:36 Jon Goldberg
2002-11-20 18:31 ` Rik van Riel
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