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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, akpm@osdl.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TASK_SIZE is variable.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:29:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050131112957.755e5a0c.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050131092354.GD19740@wotan.suse.de>

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:23:54 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> > However, I like the mm->max_addr idea because that could be used
> > for the mmap()/munmap()/mremap() sanity checks as well instead of
> > bogus TASK_SIZE.
> 
> Hmm, but in process context it is not bogus is it? 

I guess you're suggesting that there could be times when
mm->max_addr and the current thread's address space disposition
are out of sync?

That is certainly something to check out.  And I am rather
certain that it is flush_old_exec() which should transition
mm->max_addr.  It is the only spot where the address space
API logically changes.  More precisely, this occurs when
exec_mmap() completes successfully, so maybe it should happen
there and in that case.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-31 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-25 22:26 TASK_SIZE is variable David Woodhouse
2005-01-25 23:52 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-26  6:36   ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-26  6:41     ` David S. Miller
2005-01-26  7:13       ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-26  7:24         ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-26  7:43           ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-26  8:01             ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-26  8:04               ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28  2:58               ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-28  3:11                 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-28  3:17                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-28  6:40                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-29 11:23                       ` Anton Blanchard
2005-01-28  8:46                     ` Russell King
2005-01-28  6:39                 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-28 11:32                   ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-26  7:54   ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-29 20:23 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-29 23:28   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-30 11:01     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-30 12:10       ` Paul Mackerras
2005-01-31  2:23         ` David S. Miller
2005-01-31  9:23           ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-31 19:29             ` David S. Miller [this message]
2005-01-31 19:38               ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-31 20:35                 ` David S. Miller
2005-02-03  4:08                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-03  6:28                     ` David S. Miller
2005-02-03  7:19                       ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-03  9:23                         ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-31  2:33     ` Matthew Wilcox

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