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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 04:23:54PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Is it possible to delay the linkage like that? As arguments get copied into
> the temporary stack before it gets moved, I'd have expected the normal fault
> path to prepare and attach the anon_vma. We could special case it but
> that isn't very palatable either.

I'm not sure what is more palatable, but I feel it should be fixed in
execve.

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