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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Re: Segfault of UML-TT on FC1
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:10:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402171710.i1HHAYMM002541@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:32:30 GMT." <Pine.LNX.4.58.0402161916440.8742@vega.dur.ac.uk>

m.a.young@durham.ac.uk said:
> The remaining issue which the final part addresses is that a later
> routine that reserves area to act as physical memory still assumes the
> areas are adjacent, and you get a random amount less memory reserved
> than you expect (something like 16M), and this might not leave you
> with enough memory to use.

The space is non-zero even on a non-exec-shield system, probably because some
mallocing has pushed the brk across a page boundary.  So I changed it to add
memory only if it's > 1M, and also added a printf saying what's happening.

				Jeff



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-17 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-16  7:25 [uml-devel] Segfault of UML-TT on FC1 Pete Zaitcev
2004-02-16  7:47 ` Steven Pritchard
2004-02-16  7:50 ` [uml-devel] " Ingo Molnar
2004-02-16 19:32   ` M A Young
2004-02-17 17:10     ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2004-02-16 20:27   ` Jeff Dike

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