From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on memory map of process on i386
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 00:58:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F1BCB2.8030006@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7276.1123129359@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
Keith Owens wrote:
> The gate page is a section of code that is generated as part of the
> kernel build. At run time, the gate page is mapped into all the user
> space processes. There is also a virtual dynamic .so (vdso) file that
> is created by the kernel and picked up by the linker, the vdso maps the
> kernel entries in the gate page. Run this command and look for "gate".
Okay, I suspected it might be something like this.
Why does find_vma() fail for that page though? This confuses some code
that I wrote. Do I have to teach my stuff about get_gate_vma() and
in_gate_area()?
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-04 6:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 23:28 question on memory map of process on i386 Christopher Friesen
2005-08-04 3:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-08-04 4:22 ` Keith Owens
2005-08-04 6:58 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
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