From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: joe Shmoe <jsmoe3@yahoo.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel page table mapping for >1GB <3 GB for x86 arch without PAE
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:13:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24089.1251486780@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:40:56 PDT." <812804.57438.qm@web45209.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:40:56 PDT, joe Shmoe said:
> For the sake of discussion, let us say I have 3.5 GB of RAM of x86 with PAE
> disabled and I have only one process running other than kernel.
Oh, so an embedded environment. Sure, you could play games with that.
But most Linux systems have more processes running than just 'init'. And
in that case, what do you do with your memory map? It gets a bit more
complicated then....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-28 18:08 joe Shmoe
2009-08-28 18:12 ` Roland Dreier
2009-08-28 18:40 ` joe Shmoe
2009-08-28 19:13 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2009-08-28 19:44 ` joe Shmoe
2009-08-28 19:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-28 20:23 ` joe Shmoe
2009-08-28 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-29 0:20 ` joe Shmoe
2009-08-29 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-29 14:40 ` joe Shmoe
2009-08-28 21:07 ` joe Shmoe
2009-08-28 22:11 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-28 19:49 ` Roland Dreier
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