linux-kernel - Re: Linux kernel memory and split on 64-bit machines

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Message-ID: <p73abq23yu4.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:11:15 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Yoav Artzi <yoavar@...ckpoint.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel memory and split on 64-bit machines

Yoav Artzi <yoavar@...ckpoint.com> writes:

> I am researching now about the Linux kernel memory on 64-bit (x86_64)
> machines. I am looking into answering the following questions:
>
> 1. Is there a user-kernel split on 64-bit memories? If so, how is it
> done? What is the size of each part?

See Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt. Note it changed in 2.6.11.

-Andi
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