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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: SHMLBA and compat tasks
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:41:01 -0800
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> I assume you're asking me here (too many David's!).  The answer is
> that it's NOT OK to force 1MB alignment for IA-32 tasks.

Why exactly is SHMLBA 1MB, something to do with the ia64 address
space segments or something?