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SubjectRe: Who owns those locks ?
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 2:03 am, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
> - You keep my code, it is correct for a memory size up to 16 Tbytes.

Many if not most large machines have sparse address spaces,
so you may have memory at an address that will cause a
problem even if the actual amount of memory is much smaller.

The main point is that I wouldn't want a time bomb that
will silently fail when somebody happens to boot on such
a machine. Whether that's avoided by a "miraculous" bit,
throwing away problem pages at boot-time, avoiding task
allocation at specific addresses, etc., is secondary.
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