Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:49:07 -0800 | | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | | Subject | Re: Backport of Ingo/Arjan highpte to 2.4.18 (+O1 scheduler) |
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> I'm not considering to drop pte-highmem from 2.4 and to only support the > user-fixmaps in 2.5 because it is a showstopper bugfix for lots of > important users that definitely cannot wait 2.6. I'm also not > considering backporting the user-fixmaps because that would be a quite > invasive change messing also with the alignment of the user stack (I > know it could stay into kernel space, but right after the user stack it > will be more optimized and cleaner/simpler, so I prefer to put the few > virtual pages there).
Can you explain the problem with the aligment of the user stack? I can't see what the problem is here .... and we need to start thinking about how to fix it if you've seen a problem that we haven't .... Thanks,
M.
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