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    SubjectRe: 2.6.10-rc2-mm4
    Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
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    > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc2/2.6.10-rc2-mm4/
    > >
    > > - Various fixes and cleanups
    > >
    > > - A decent-sized x86_64 update.
    > >
    > > - x86_64 supports a fourth VM zone: ZONE_DMA32. This may affect memory
    > > reclaim, but shouldn't.
    >
    >
    > what is the purpose of such a zone ??

    For pages which have a physical address <4G. I assume this was motivated
    by the lack of an IOMMU on ia32e?
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