Re: breakage: flex mmap patch for x86-64

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 18:39:44 EST


On Friday 05 of November 2004 23:54, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> This prevents 32bit apps from running on x86_64. Backing out the
Makefile
> >> and processor.h changes has everything working again. Perhaps something
> >> needs to check for a 32bit environment? I don't know if it's the change
> >> to TASK_SIZE or the "backwards" mmaps that's the real breakage. And at
this
> >> point, I don't have time to test.
> >>
> >> (64bit apps work just fine.)
> >
> >Confirmed, and apparently it is not sifficient to change the TASK_SIZE
> >definition in include/asm-x86_64/processor.h to make the 32-bit userland
> >work. Hence, it seems that the "backwards" mmaps break things.
>
> Looks like checking for PER_LINUX32 might fix it...
>
> >>> if (current->personality & (ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT|PER_LINUX32))

It does not seem to work either.

Greets,
RJW

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