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From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't mlock guardpage if the stack is growing up
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 23:08:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikLJPCc5ffobAb5uhdryRqjGhpVAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikkA5H2D23u23FV0cTcL2bAT8BKWQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Ahh, so you never actually have one single mapping that has both flags set?
>
> In that case, I won't even worry about it.

Definitely not for normal processes - I'm not sure how both stacks are
set up for threads.

> One thing I did want to verify: did the mlockall() actually change the
> stack size without that patch? Just to double-check that the patch
> actually did change semantics visibly.

On an unpatched system I see this (lots more than one page of growth -
pages are 64K on this config):
6007fffffff50000-6007fffffff70000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
6007fffffff50000-6008000000750000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

On a patched system I see (this one has 16K pages - no growth)
600007ffff9d0000-600007ffff9d4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
600007ffff9d0000-600007ffff9d4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

-Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-09 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105082045250.15552@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
     [not found] ` <alpine.LSU.2.00.1105081303540.16151@sister.anvils>
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105091307570.32299@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
     [not found]     ` <BANLkTinCUQSjjif3op3H_9HDm5Eu-o+Luw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-09 22:07       ` [PATCH] Don't mlock guardpage if the stack is growing up Linus Torvalds
2011-05-09 22:19         ` James Bottomley
2011-05-09 22:31           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-09 22:53             ` Tony Luck
2011-05-09 22:58               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-09 23:08                 ` Tony Luck [this message]
2011-05-09 23:17                   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-09 23:25                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-10  4:12                       ` James Bottomley
2011-05-09 22:26         ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-05-15 22:18           ` Mikulas Patocka

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