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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:07:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110307150756.d50635f1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299244994-5284-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>

On Fri,  4 Mar 2011 15:23:14 +0200
Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> wrote:

> The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is
> splitted into multiple mappings.
> 
> Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases:
> 	1. vma matches exactly the heap
> 	2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss
> 	3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org

Why do you believe this problem is serious enough to justify
backporting the fix into -stable?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-04 13:23 [PATCHv2] procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check Aaro Koskinen
2011-03-07  7:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-03-07 23:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-03-09 14:36   ` Aaro Koskinen

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