From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [bigmem-patch] 4GB with Linux on IA32 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:43:37 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <199908161843.LAA76017@google.engr.sgi.com> from "Kanoj Sarcar" at Aug 16, 99 11:43:33 am Content-Type: text Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Kanoj Sarcar Cc: andrea@suse.de, torvalds@transmeta.com, sct@redhat.com, Gerhard.Wichert@pdb.siemens.de, Winfried.Gerhard@pdb.siemens.de, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > a range of user pages that were in bigmem area? Also, debuggers > want to look at user memory, so they would also need to map the > pages. Are there any other cases where a driver might want to That is the tricky one. What occurs if I mmap a high memory page of another process via /proc/pid/mem ? then write it -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/