Re: Kernel vs user memory
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Jan 17 2009 - 01:39:19 EST
sidc7 wrote:
> If I am not mistaken, Linux kernel is a high memory kernel, hence for Linux
> kernel, nothing will be mapped to the kernel space, other than the memory
> beyond 896MB which is the kernel's virtual address space. Am I right on
> this?
It's a compilation option, and depends on the architecture. What you
described is true for an i386 kernel compiled as a highmem kernel. On
the other hand, a 64 bit kernel is *never* highmem.
-hpa
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