Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:09:19 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: heap-stack-gap for 2.6 |
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > I didn't check the topdown model, in theory it should be extended to > > cover that too, this is only working for the legacy model right now > > because those apps aren't going to use topdown anyways. > > which "those apps" ?
those apps that wants to allocate as close as possible to the stack. They're already using /proc/self/mapped_base, the gap of topdown isn't configurable.
Also topdown may screwup some MAP_FIXED usage below the 1G mark, no? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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