From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC408D0039 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:08:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:07:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] procfs: fix /proc//maps heap check Message-Id: <20110307150756.d50635f1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1299244994-5284-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> References: <1299244994-5284-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Aaro Koskinen Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, stable@kernel.org On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:23:14 +0200 Aaro Koskinen 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 > Cc: stable@kernel.org Why do you believe this problem is serious enough to justify backporting the fix into -stable? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org