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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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Subject: what is ~1MB of memory allocated at fffea000-fffff000 on ppc64?
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Hi all,

I've got a ppc64 box running 2.6.14.  64-bit kernel, 32-bit userspace. 
It has a ~86KB chunk of memory near the top of the process address 
space, and I'm not sure who's setting it up and what the purpose is.  In 
/proc/<pid>/maps it looks like this:

fffea000-fffff000 rw-p fffea000 00:00 0

Can anyone enlighten me as to what this is for and who is allocating it?

Thanks,

Chris