Re: 2.6.32-rc3: low mem - only 378MB on x86_32 with 64GB. Why?

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 17:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In fact, I wish more people did that, just so that we'd get better 
> coverage of the 32-bit compat code. We occasionally find issues there,
> although I think it's getting rarer.

We've been running PPC64 with 32-bit userspace for a long time, so most
of the issues with the 32-bit compat code ought to be dealt with.

There may be a few arch-specific issues for x86_64/i386, but not many.

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dwmw2

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