Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:31:43 -0600 | | From | Dave McCracken <> | | Subject | Re: [BUG] get_unmapped_area() change -> non booting machine |
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--On Thursday, February 12, 2004 09:17:44 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> it it uses RLIMIT_STACK plus a maximum limit (although it's a _big_ > maximum limit, much bigger than we'd use for BSS). So we could do > something similar for the BSS, with obviously a smaller hard limit (on a > 64-bit architecture a gigabyte is fine, but ..)
Hmm... would it work to just do something like 'if the previous vma is grow-up then allocate from the top of the hole'? It'd eliminate the need for a hard limit and should pretty much stay out of the way of BSS.
Dave McCracken
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