From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.ccr.net (ccr@alogconduit1ae.ccr.net [208.130.159.5]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA09072 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 04:43:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: swapcache bug? References: From: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 09 Feb 1999 01:15:28 -0600 In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:48:06 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de, "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds writes: LT> Yes. The page offset will become a "sector offset" (I'd actually like to LT> make it a page number, but then I'd have to break ZMAGIC dynamic loading LT> due to the fractional page offsets, so it's not worth it for three extra LT> bits), and that gives you 41 bits of addressing even on a 32-bit machine. LT> Which is plenty - considering that by the time you need more than that LT> you'd _really_ better be running on a larger machine anyway. ??? With the latter OMAGIC format everthing is page aligned already. I have a patch that removes page sharing support from ZMAGIC but keeps everything functional. Tested with a OMAGIC libc ZMAGIC doom and ZMAGIC Xlibs. This is on my queue for submission to 2.3. Eric -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/