Re: shm and locked pages

[Joerg Weule]

> From [e-mail] Mon Dec  1 20:22 MET 1997
> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:22:46 -0600
> From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: shm and locked pages
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry, you can't use floating point arithmetic inside the kernel,
> even on systems with hardware floating point.  The kernel uses
> lazy context switching on the floating point registers so your
> code will clobber any user programs that use floating point.

Thanks for comment. Can I use long long, because I would like to build the
square of the number of pages and this can be a real huge number.

Thanks a lot ... I runing my kernal with this code  ;-(
Sorry, I think I will code a new calculation.

Jörg

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Chastain
> <mailto:[e-mail]>
> "love without fear"
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