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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] default VM flags for upwards-growing stacks
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 14:56:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DADB656.7080105@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021016194238.O15163@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> diff -urpNX build-tools/dontdiff linus-2.5/include/linux/mm.h parisc-2.5/include/linux/mm.h
> --- linus-2.5/include/linux/mm.h	Tue Oct  8 10:54:13 2002
> +++ parisc-2.5/include/linux/mm.h	Tue Oct  8 16:49:15 2002
> @@ -106,7 +106,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
>  #define VM_ACCOUNT	0x00100000	/* Is a VM accounted object */
>  #define VM_HUGETLB	0x00400000	/* Huge TLB Page VM */
>  
> -#define VM_STACK_FLAGS	(0x00000100 | VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT)
> +#ifdef ARCH_STACK_GROWSUP
> +#define VM_STACK_FLAGS	(VM_GROWSUP | VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT)
> +#else
> +#define VM_STACK_FLAGS	(VM_GROWSDOWN | VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT)
> +#endif


is it worth it to crease a VM_GROW_DIR define instead?

then there is no ifdef in linux/mm.h, just an arch-dependent define.


      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-16 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-16 18:42 [PATCH] default VM flags for upwards-growing stacks Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-16 18:56 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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