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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ?
Date1 Jan 2002 17:16:18 -0800
Followup to:  <E16LTvs-00016I-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author:    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> > 2. Isn't the boundary at 2^30 really irrelevant and the three "correct"
> > zones are (0 - 2^24-1), (2^24 - 2^32-1) and (2^32 - 2^36-1)?
> 
> Nope. The limit for directly mapped memory is 2^30.
> 

2^30-2^27 to be exact (assuming a 3:1 split and 128MB vmalloc zone.)

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