From: Earl Chew <earl_chew@agilent.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Using remap_pfn_range() to increase total_vm beyond RLIMIT_AS
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:17:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD7916A.2080200@agilent.com> (raw)
remap_pfn_range() is defined in mm/memory.c and as far as I
can tell, does _not_ cause total_vm or reserved_vm to be updated.
Is this right?
RLIMIT_AS is only checked against total_vm in mm/mmap.c in the function
may_expand_vm().
I think this means that a device driver can map pages into
a process and thus effectively increase address space of
a process above and beyond the limit set by RLIMIT_AS.
Am I reading the code correctly?
Earl
next reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 21:18 UTC|newest]
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2009-10-15 21:17 Earl Chew [this message]
2009-10-19 2:20 ` Using remap_pfn_range() to increase total_vm beyond RLIMIT_AS Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-19 14:59 ` Earl Chew
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