From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA14865 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:33:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DDB48DA.2898B7FE@digeo.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:33:30 -0800 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Porting to from Solaris 64bit to Linux 32B - 36B. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Jon Goldberg , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Jon Goldberg wrote: > > > We are currently at porting to Linux 2.4 kernel and I am having > > troubles finding information on VM. Since the 2.4 Kernel support large > > amount of swap < 1TB and Physical Ram < 64GB. Is there a way to get > > memory functions like mmap to use a 64 bit pointer instead of the 32bit > > pointer. Since a memory mapped file the file is used as swap I should > > be able to have it map a file larger than 4GB and have the OS do the > > page management. > > No, this is not possible because of fundamental reasons. > I think he's asking "where is mmap64()"? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/