Re: remap_page_range with addresses above 4GB

From: Pete Zaitcev (OTID1) (ot16a6ca05878e44c0_at_comcast.net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:02:27 -0700

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:30:28 +0000, John Fusco wrote:

> This works fine as long as XXX is less than 4GB. It turns out that
> remap_page_range takes an 'unsigned long' as its argument for a physical
> address, which on IA32 is 32-bits. So I can't use it when I have to
> reserve memory above 4GB.

In case someone in the group wasn't following, John's wish was
granted. See:
 http://lwn.net/Articles/103654/

-- Pete