Re: bugs in page colouring code

Rik van Riel
2012-06-14T21:21:51Z

On 06/14/2012 05:13 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> I am much more skeptical to disabling page coloring in the !PF_RANDOMIZE
> case when no address hint is proposed. I would like to at least try
> running without it, perhaps with a chicken bit in a sysctl.

Agreed, it is hard to imagine a program that passes
address 0 to mmap, yet breaks when it gets a coloured
page address back...

I'll leave that bit of code untouched for now, we can
play with it later.