From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: mikpe@csd.uu.se
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hammer: MAP_32BIT
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:16:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509121611.GA5155@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16059.38513.197275.134938@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:52:17PM +0200, mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote:
> Andi Kleen writes:
> >
> > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:28:11PM +0200, mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote:
> > > I have a potential use for mmap()ing in the low 4GB on x86_64.
> >
> > Just use MAP_32BIT
>
> Will that be corrected to use the full 4GB space? 2GB is too small.
That would break the X server.
But what you can do is to use mmap(0x1000, ....) and free the memory
again if the result is bigger than 4GB. If you pass an non zero value
as first argument but not MAP_FIXED it'll use the address argument
as starting point for the search.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 7:35 hammer: MAP_32BIT Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-09 9:20 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-09 11:28 ` mikpe
2003-05-09 11:38 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-09 11:52 ` mikpe
2003-05-09 12:16 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-05-09 18:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-09 19:24 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-09 20:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-09 21:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-09 22:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-09 22:20 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-09 22:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-09 22:20 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-09 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-09 22:46 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-09 23:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-13 14:25 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-09 22:22 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-09 22:53 ` Timothy Miller
2003-05-09 23:24 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-10 0:00 ` Edgar Toernig
2003-05-10 0:58 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-10 2:51 ` Edgar Toernig
2003-05-09 17:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-09 17:39 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-05-10 1:48 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-10 20:10 ` David Woodhouse
2003-05-13 18:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
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