Re: 2.6.25-rc3: 34TB vmalloc total -- overflow in /proc/meminfo?
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 06:30:53 EST
> but the first fundamental limit we'll hit on 64-bit is the 32-bit offset
31bit to be pedantic.
> limit of binaries - this affects kernel modules, the kernel image, etc.
If that ever happens just -fPIC mode would need to be supported
and a proper PLT for the references between modules and kernel. It would complicate
the module loader slightly, but not too much.
> We wont hit that anytime soon, but we'll eventually hit it. (user-space
> will be the first i guess)
I recently submitted a patch to fix the 2GB limit for user space
binaries (missing O_LARGEFILE). I think it made it into .25.
Newer gcc/binutils support the large code model so you could actually
try to generate binaries that big :-) e.g. some of the rtl-to-C compilers
seem to generate huge code so it might be actually useful.
Also of course you can always split the executable into ~2GB shared libraries.
-Andi
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