Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM)

From: Ryan Cumming
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 04:51:42 EST


On Wednesday 25 August 2004 21:49, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> William> ELF ABI violation. "...the reserved area shall not
> William> consume more than 1GB of the address space."
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:46:43PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Agreed, but I do like running with PAGE_OFFSET == 0xB0000000 on my
> > main box, which has 1 GB of RAM. I can avoid highmem and still use
> > the last 128 MB of RAM. It takes me about 3 seconds to edit
> > <asm/page.h> when I build a new kernel so I'm not arguing for merging
> > this, though.
>
> Though asinine, the ABI spec is set in stone.

And at least one app (valgrind) chokes with as little as 1.25G of reserved
space.

-Ryan

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