Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?]

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Mon, 6 May 2002 03:13:08 +0200


On Monday 06 May 2002 02:55, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:54:52AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > I must be guilty of not explaining clearly. Suppose you have the following
> > physical memory map:
> >
> > 0: 128 MB
> > 8000,0000: 128 MB
> > 1,0000,0000: 128 MB
> > 1,8000,0000: 128 MB
> > 2,0000,0000: 128 MB
> > 2,8000,0000: 128 MB
> > 3,0000,0000: 128 MB
> > 3,8000,0000: 128 MB
> >
> > The total is 1 GB of installed ram. Yet the kernel's 1G virtual space,
> > can only handle 128 MB of it.
>
>... I've been running kernels for a while on such systems.

Could you provide me with an example memory map, please?

-- 
Daniel
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