Re: anon_vma RFC2

Rik van Riel
2004-03-12T19:15:26Z

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Friesen wrote:

> I'm just thinking of the "fork 100000 kids to test 32-bit pids" sort of
> test cases.

Try that with a process that takes up 2GB of address
space ;) It won't work now and it'll fail for the
same reasons with the scheme I proposed.

Probably before the 2^44 bits of space run out, too.

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