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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:33:58 -0500
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 or so] Use 1TB segments
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From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:37:10PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for
> user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them
> (currently POWER5+, POWER6 and PA6T).

Gack. A system dump might take a while on these machines ... 

--linas