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To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: x86 question: Can a process have > 3GB memory?
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: 08 May 2002 17:24:27 +0200
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"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