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On 05/26/2017 11:24 AM, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> The only case where that even has any utility is for an application
> to want more than 128 TiB address space on a machine with no more
> than 64 TiB of RAM.  It is kind of a narrow use case, I think.

Doesn't more address space increase the effectiveness of ASLR?  I
thought KASLR, especially, was limited in its effectiveness because of a
lack of address space.