From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261389AbVGRO5T (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:57:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261458AbVGRO5T (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:57:19 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.194]:42333 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261389AbVGRO5R convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:57:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PSdB2lHnYirjobHt4gmXsxChPZqZeT0eQbV8dsyu36OOYQ+0EkKoMHBobwaIY4gHmO4rkkh8AND5gNLuM2bVjrvyeQ83T37nKbn6wldXEPPNqjzUsUCyKNr3a3l2U/UpDIWNuKKxUa50qo+0BoIMeguJ80BZKPznHvoFXgI+RlA= Message-ID: <3faf0568050718075677c13e8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:26:53 +0530 From: vamsi krishna Reply-To: vamsi krishna To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Avoiding BIGMEM support programatically. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello All, I have a program working fine on a 2.6.xx-smp kernel, and the program crashes on the same version kernel with bigmem i.e (2.6.xxx-bigmem). I also found that for a same executable on bigmem kernel the virtual address's of '&_start' and '&_etext', seem to vary in every new run. Is there any way I can avoid the kernel's bigmem virtual address mapping programatically? and still run the program on a bigmem kernel? Really appreciate your help in this context. Best Regards, Vamsi Kundeti.