From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760048AbZEFMV7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 08:21:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760030AbZEFMVp (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 08:21:45 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38139 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760018AbZEFMVo (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2009 08:21:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4A0180AB.20108@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 08:20:59 -0400 From: Rik van Riel Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-mm@kvack.org, mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: 46 bit PAE support References: <20090505172856.6820db22@cuia.bos.redhat.com> <4A00ED83.1030700@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4A00ED83.1030700@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: >> Testing: booted it on an x86-64 system with 6GB RAM. Did you really think >> I had access to a system with 64TB of RAM? :) > > No, but it would be good if we could test it under Qemu or KVM with an > appropriately set up sparse memory map. I don't have a system with 1TB either, which is how much space the memmap[] would take... -- All rights reversed.