public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MM_VM_SIZE in exit_mmap
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:02:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41F6CFF2.7010907@f2s.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050125142210.GI5920@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Anton Blanchard wrote:

 > As an aside, all architectures except one define FIRST_USER_PGD_NR as 0:
 >
 > include/asm-arm26/pgtable.h:#define FIRST_USER_PGD_NR       1

All processes on arm26 must map the same page 0 as its where the SWI 
vector table goes. The vector table is located at address 0, and as such 
becomes virtual address space once the MMU is switched on. This is 
unavoidable, unlike later ARMs which can remap it elsewhere.

The only way this could work is if you do the zeroing with all 
interrupts off and restore page 0 afterwards, which seems rather silly 
to me.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-25 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-25 14:22 [PATCH] Use MM_VM_SIZE in exit_mmap Anton Blanchard
2005-01-25 16:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-25 16:57   ` Anton Blanchard
2005-01-25 17:13     ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-27 20:46     ` [PATCH RFC] Change (some) TASK_SIZE to task_vtop(current) Chris Wedgwood
2005-01-25 23:02 ` Ian Molton [this message]
2005-01-25 23:39   ` [PATCH] Use MM_VM_SIZE in exit_mmap Russell King
2005-01-26  0:01     ` Anton Blanchard
2005-01-26  0:17 ` Nick Piggin
2005-01-26  6:44 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-26  7:39   ` William Lee Irwin III

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=41F6CFF2.7010907@f2s.com \
    --to=spyro@f2s.com \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=anton@samba.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox