Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 06:56:51 EDT 2012


Hi :)

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Pritam Bankar
<pritambankar1988 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But I have some questions,
>
> 1. How is memory split up on 64-bit architecture

in this URL:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32244/user-kernel-split-in-64bit-linux

it says user space get 128 TiB...the rest you can read  there :)

> 2. Can we override this 3:1 split ?

sure.... just change PAGE_OFFSET if I remember correctly...however,
the effects might be harmful, for example for certain virtualization
since they assume certain address for memory allocation

> 3. If yes, who can do that user or kernel?

kernel..for sure..

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Mulyadi Santosa
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