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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 19/24] TASK_SIZE is variable.
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> Would arch maintainers please look at fixing this in their architectures 
> instead? Make TASK_SIZE be the maximum size a process VM can have. 

The problem is that compat flexmmap depends on it. I actually dropped flexmmap
again, but the x86-64 flexmmap which will be merged at some point again
had a x86-64 change to switch to variable TASK_SIZE. 

-Andi