Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [discuss] [Patch] X86_64 TASK_SIZE cleanup - more comments | From | Alexander Nyberg <> | Date | Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:10:03 +0200 |
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> PPC64 IA64 and S390 use variable size TASK_SIZE for 32 bit and 64 bit > program. > I feel it is hard to maintain if we try to audit TASK_SIZE use > everywhere, because most of them are in generic code. > > And maintaining those audit code in separate place is also a problem. > E.g. in current 32 bit emulation code > TASK_SIZE is defined as 0xfffffff in elf loading, but defined as > 0xffffe000 in mmaping. > > How did that earlier patch break applications?
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/1605.html
I never investigated specifically what broke down
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