Re: [PATCHv1, RFC 0/8] Boot-time switching between 4- and 5-level paging

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Fri May 26 2017 - 15:23:44 EST


On 05/26/2017 11:24 AM, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The only case where that even has any utility is for an application
> to want more than 128 TiB address space on a machine with no more
> than 64 TiB of RAM. It is kind of a narrow use case, I think.

Doesn't more address space increase the effectiveness of ASLR? I
thought KASLR, especially, was limited in its effectiveness because of a
lack of address space.