Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:05:33 +0000 (GMT)

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> Processes can have more than one segment, and 32-bit virtual address
> spaces can themselves be made virtual. I suppose one could say that
> the following hack uses segments to implement paging of a 36-bit
> virtual address space.

All segments map onto the same 4Gig virtual space

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