Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 or so] Use 1TB segments

From: [email-masked] (Linas Vepstas)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:33:58 -0500

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:37:10PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for
> user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them
> (currently POWER5+, POWER6 and PA6T).

Gack. A system dump might take a while on these machines ... 

--linas