Re: breakage: flex mmap patch for x86-64

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Nov 06 2004 - 07:52:58 EST


On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:50:27AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 06 of November 2004 10:12, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > static inline int mmap_is_legacy(void)
> > > {
> > > + if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32))
> > > + return 1;
> >
> > That's definitely not the right fix because for 32bit you need flexmmap
> > more than for 64bit because it gives you more address space.
>
> So let's call it temporary, but I like 32-bit apps having less address space
> rather than segfaulting.

If you want a temporary fix use the appended one. But I think Linus pulled it anyways.

-Andi


diff -u linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c-o linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c
--- linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c-o 2004-11-05 11:42:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c 2004-11-06 13:50:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
#endif

#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT
-int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
+int sysctl_legacy_va_layout = 1;
#endif

/* /proc declarations: */
-
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