System 5 shared memory: before I do somethign stupid...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 22 Sep 98 00:32 BST


Is there any current reason that the shared memory tables (the ulong per
page) can't be vmalloc() instead of kmalloc()'d. Its a small change to
allow support for much bigger shared memory areas that the price of RAM
makes eminently reasonable.

Alan

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