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From: robherring2@gmail.com (Rob Herring)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: topdown mmap support
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:05:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECB1186.1020601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321566426-31184-2-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com>

On 11/17/2011 03:47 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
> 
> Similar to other architectures, this adds topdown mmap support in user
> process address space allocation policy. This allows mmap sizes greater
> than 2GB. This support is largely copied from MIPS and the generic
> implementations.
> 
> The address space randomization is moved into arch_pick_mmap_layout.
> 
> Tested on V-Express with ubuntu and a mmap test from here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861296
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
> ---
> v2: 
> - remove icache_is_vipt_aliasing check
> 
>  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h   |    1 +
>  arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h |    2 +
>  arch/arm/mm/mmap.c               |  173 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

Russell,

I submitted these 2 patches to the patch system. Can you please pull
into your next branch so they can get some more testing.

Cheers,
Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-22  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17 21:47 [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: use cache type functions for arch_get_unmapped_area Rob Herring
2011-11-17 21:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: topdown mmap support Rob Herring
2011-11-22  3:05   ` Rob Herring [this message]
2011-11-22  3:44     ` Nicolas Pitre
2012-10-24 12:22   ` zhangfei gao
2012-10-24 12:39     ` Rob Herring
2011-11-17 22:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: use cache type functions for arch_get_unmapped_area Will Deacon

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