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SubjectRe: [patch] Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac6
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:

> Hmm, yes. However, your patch isn't pretty, too. You may check
> the same area twice, and won't satisfy requested address > TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.

Only a single address may be checked twice. There is no second loop I'm
trying to avoid. The loop starts from addr or TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE,
whichever is lower. If that won't succeed you won't be able to mmap
anything anyway.

> What do you think about following? Everything is scanned only once, and
> returned address matches specified one as close as possible.

No, no, no... The address specified is a hint only and the system is
free to use any other. Actually this patch made me curious, why we should
change the limit -- TASK_SIZE is fine in all cases. After a bit of
studying of Alpha headers, I concluded none of the patches is needed at
all, because TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is set to:

((current->personality & ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT) ? 0x40000000 : TASK_SIZE / 2)

to support 32-bit binaries. So if the personality is set appropriately
for netscape, mmap() should work fine as is, placing maps in the low 4GB.
No need to patch arch_get_unmapped_area(), but OSF/1 compatibility code
might need fixing. I suppose an OSF/1 binary must have an appropriate
flag set in its header after building with the -taso option so that the
system knows the binary wants 32-bit addressing.

I have no Alpha/Linux system available anymore -- could anyone else check
what the real problem with netscape is?

Maciej

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