Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Updated Linux 2.4 Status/TODO List (from the ALS show) | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 23:47:55 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:45:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Can we always be sure the rss will fit in an atomic_t - is it > 32bits on the > > ultrsparc/alpha ? > > It is not.
Then we need to use locking to protect the rss since on a big 64bit box we can exceed 2^32 pages in theory and probably soon in practice.
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