Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:17:57 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] report user-readable fixmap area in /proc/PID/maps |
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote: > > This patch makes /proc/PID/maps report the range from FIXADDR_USER_START to > FIXADDR_USER_END as a final pseudo-vma.
This special-casing, and the special-casing in get_user_pages() would go away if each process had a real VMA for the fixmap area inserted into its VMA tree.
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