Re: [PATCH] ARM64: implement TASK_SIZE_OF

Will Deacon
2014-06-20T08:25:20Z

Hi Colin,

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:10:09PM +0100, Colin Cross wrote:
> include/linux/sched.h implements TASK_SIZE_OF as TASK_SIZE if it
> is not set by the architecture headers. TASK_SIZE uses the
> current task to determine the size of the virtual address space.
> On a 64-bit kernel this will cause reading /proc/pid/pagemap of a
> 64-bit process from a 32-bit process to return EOF when it reads
> past 0xffffffff.
>
> Implement TASK_SIZE_OF exactly the same as TASK_SIZE with
> test_tsk_thread_flag instead of test_thread_flag.

Looks sane to me.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

I take it you're being bitten by this in real software, hence the CC stable
tag?

Will