From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alpha 2.4.13: fix taso osf emulation
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:03:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011026100346.C1663@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011026013101.A1404@redhat.com> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1011026113847.14048A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1011026113847.14048A-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:01:10PM +0200
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:01:10PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> The following trivial patch reportedly fixes OSF/1 programs using 31-bit
> addressing. It's already present in the -ac tree; I guess it just got
> lost during a merge. It applies fine to 2.4.13.
This is the patch that Jay Estabrook forwarded me that I rejected
in favour of writing a special arch_get_unmapped_area.
> It used to do so. It breaks things such as dynamic linking of shared
> objects linked at high load address.
Err, how?
> It breaks mmap() in principle, as it shouldn't fail when invoked with
> a non-zero, non-MAP_FIXED, invalid address if there is still address
> space available elsewhere.
No, it doesn't. Or rather, it only does if you only bothered
to search once. IMO one should search thrice: once at addr,
once at TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE, and once at PAGE_SIZE.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-26 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-26 8:31 alpha 2.4.13: fix taso osf emulation Richard Henderson
2001-10-26 10:01 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-10-26 10:45 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-10-26 17:11 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-29 16:35 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-10-29 17:21 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-26 17:03 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2001-10-26 18:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-10-28 9:38 ` Module loading and Kernel crash Anand Ashok Kulkarni
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