Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: vma->vm_end > 0x60000000 | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 07 Dec 2001 09:33:12 +0100 |
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> writes:
|> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:48:11PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: |> > In fs/proc/array.c:proc_pid_statm() there is this test block: |> > |> > if (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXECUTABLE) |> > trs += pages; /* text */ |> > else if (vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN) |> > drs += pages; /* stack */ |> > else if (vma->vm_end > 0x60000000) |> > lrs += pages; /* library */ |> > else |> > drs += pages; |> > |> > Is there any special reason for the hardcoded constant `0x60000000'? |> > In the Linux/m68k tree, we use TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE instead. But I don't know |> > why. |> |> I think this is an old x86 load address for an ELF interpreter.
No, it is a leftover from the a.out times. IMHO it should be removed completely. "Library pages" has no meaning for ELF.
Andreas.
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