Re: [PATCH v2] guard page for stacks that grow upwards

James Bottomley
2010-08-24T20:32:48Z

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 13:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Built, booted & tested on ia64
> > Built for x86_64 (but not booted or tested)
> > pa-risc - untested
>
> Ok, applied. I do think we could do the "VM_GROWSDOWN = 0" trick for
> PA-RISC (so that the code for the growsdown case would be compiled
> away there), but that definitely needs somebody who actually cares
> specifically about PA-RISC.

I can try it ... I was just getting ready to try the -rc2 kernel on our
cupertino test ring anyway.

James