Hi,

I've got a ppc64 box running 2.6.14.  64-bit kernel, 32-bit userspace. 
It has a ~86KB chunk of memory near the top of the process address 
space, and I'm not sure who's setting it up and what the purpose is.  In 
/proc/<pid>/maps it looks like this:

fffea000-fffff000 rw-p fffea000 00:00 0

Can anyone enlighten me as to what this is for and who is allocating it?

Looks like your process stack. BTW we leave the top page
(0xfffff000 - 0xffffffff) unmapped mostly because of test cases that
expect

*(unsigned long *)-1UL

to fail.

Anton