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On Sat, 19 May 2007 11:15:01 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: >> Much the same holds for the atomic_t's; 32 + PAGE_SHIFT is >> 44 bits or more, about as much as is possible, and one reference per >> page per page is not even feasible. Full-length atomic_t's are just >> not necessary. On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:09:34PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > You can overflow a page's refcount by mapping it 4G times. That requires > 32GB of pagetable memory. It's quite feasible with remap_file_pages(). Oh dear, worst-case app behavior. I'm just wrong. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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