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Re: Why "high memory" in x86?

liang yuanen wrote: 
i am newbie to kernel,
896 MB, where it come from?


The space between 896MB and 1024MB is used for vmalloc and for
temporary mappings that allow the kernel to access high memory.

http://linux-mm.org/HighMemory

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