Re: TASK_SIZE is variable.

Andi Kleen
2005-01-26T06:36:27Z

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:52:39PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:26:52 +0000
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > Bad things can happen if a 32-bit process is the last user of a 64-bit
> > mm.
>
> I guess this is OK.

I still don't get it. When exactly can a process have memory > 32bit
and not have the 32bit flag set that is checked by TASK_SIZE. IMHO that's
the bug that needs addressing, because it will likely break more code.

-Andi