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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:31:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        scrappy@hub.org, erich@lodgenet.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple Buffer allocation of Shared Memory
Message-ID:  <199612110331.WAA01277@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199612102114.OAA04855@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 10, 96 02:14:43 pm

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> 
> Practically, the shm stuff is mapped in KVM space and the mmap stuff
> is not.
>
I fixed that brokenness in 2.2 and 3.0 a long time ago.

>
>  This is an implemenation detail (it's worse to implement
> address space mappings in the KVM space because it's already so
> limited and has paging restrictions because of the processor protect
> bits -- but it's possible and likely for this to fixed in a future
> rev of FreeBSD).
> 
It is fixed :-).  We are very very KVA space conservative (or getting
more so with larger and larger systems looming.)

John



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