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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: heap-stack-gap for 2.6
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:09:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040927130919.GE28865@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096272553.6572.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > I didn't check the topdown model, in theory it should be extended to
> > cover that too, this is only working for the legacy model right now
> > because those apps aren't going to use topdown anyways.
> 
> which "those apps" ?

those apps that wants to allocate as close as possible to the stack.
They're already using /proc/self/mapped_base, the gap of topdown isn't
configurable.

Also topdown may screwup some MAP_FIXED usage below the 1G mark, no?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-27 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-25 16:22 heap-stack-gap for 2.6 Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 23:57 ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-26  0:40   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-27  8:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-27 13:09   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-09-28 19:43     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-28 22:19       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-29  6:05         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-29 14:11           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-29 14:24             ` Alan Cox
2004-09-29 15:44               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-29 14:25             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-29 14:53               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-29 15:01                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-29 15:40                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28  6:25 ` Hui Huang
2004-09-28 14:19   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-29  8:42     ` Hui Huang
2004-09-29 14:23       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-29 22:01         ` Hui Huang
2004-10-12  0:51           ` Andrea Arcangeli

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