Re: [crash] Re: Latest brk patchset

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Mar 16 2009 - 14:27:19 EST


Yinghai Lu wrote:

need more extra check for INIT_MAP_SIZE calculating...


The original calculation was designed to map enough memory that we could map all of lowmem. That is, two page table levels removed from actual lowmem, which put the overhead in the order of kilobytes (16 K in the wost case.) Something similar is definitely needed.

-hpa

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