From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 12:21:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 12:21:26 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:38645 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 12:21:25 -0400 Subject: Re: x86 question: Can a process have > 3GB memory? From: Robert Love To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Clifford White , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020508102934.Z31998@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 (1.0.3-4) Date: 08 May 2002 09:21:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1020874898.2147.102.camel@bigsur> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 01:29, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:08:55PM -0700, Robert Love wrote: > > > The attached patch (for which credit goes elsewhere - Ingo or Randy, I > > think?) implements the full range of 1 to 3.5GB user space partitioning, > > actually I'm the one who wrote the 3.5G config option both in 2.2 and > recently I forward ported it to 2.4 due the number of requests I was > getting. Apologies - credit where credit is due. It clearly came from -aa, what with the 00_ naming prefix :) Nice patch. Robert Love