From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86 question: Can a process have > 3GB memory?
Date: 08 May 2002 17:24:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u1pi7jdg.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0205072155220.32261-100000@imladris.surriel.com> <191939915.1020845530@[10.10.2.3]>
"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com> writes:
>
> How are you going to change the user page tables from userspace?
> This mechanism would seem to need kernel support however you did it.
You mmap/munmap files in tmpfs.
That is what tmpfs was developed for by SAP.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-08 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-07 23:03 x86 question: Can a process have > 3GB memory? Clifford White
2002-05-07 23:08 ` Robert Love
2002-05-08 5:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-08 8:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-08 16:21 ` Robert Love
2002-05-07 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-08 16:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-08 0:16 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-05-08 0:56 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-08 15:12 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-08 15:17 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-08 15:24 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-05-09 21:24 ` tchiwam
2002-05-09 21:40 ` Robert Love
2002-05-09 23:56 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-05-10 6:58 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-05-10 19:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-10 19:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-10 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-08 8:22 ` Luigi Genoni
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