Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: hammer: MAP_32BIT | Date | 9 May 2003 10:36:31 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20030509092026.GA11012@averell> By author: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > MAP_32BIT currently limits to the first 2GB only. That's needed because > most programs use it to allocate modules for the small code model and that > only supports 2GB (poster child for that is the X server) But for your > application 4GB would be better. But adding another MAP_32BIT_4GB or so > would be quite ugly. I considered making the address where mmap starts searching > (TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE) settable using a prctl. >
MAP_31BIT would have been a better name...
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