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Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 19:15:54 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:04:45AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > As for not putting kernel objects everywhere, this comes
> > naturally with HIGHMEM ;)
>
> Not for 64-bit targets.

Agreed.  We'll probably want to find something else to fix this
problem ...

(like, allocating kernel area as much contiguously as possible,
leaving space for large freeable areas elsewhere)

Rik
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