From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: expand_stack fix [was Re: 2.4.9aa3]
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 23:23:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109090423.XAA03403@ccure.karaya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Sep 2001 18:04:16 +0200." <20010908180416.Z11329@athlon.random>
andrea@suse.de said:
> My fix for the race doesn't drop the usability of GROWSDOWN that could
> otherwise break userspace programs. I guess at least uml uses
> growsdown vma file backed. Jeff?
No. In neither the host kernel or UML is there a vma that's file backed and
growsdown.
UML process stacks are marked growsdown in UML and are file backed on the host,
but that's not the same thing.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-09 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-19 6:07 2.4.9aa3 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-03 15:24 ` expand_stack fix [was Re: 2.4.9aa3] Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-07 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-08 16:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-08 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-09 4:23 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2001-09-09 3:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-09 5:42 ` Jeff Dike
2001-09-11 11:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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