Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:05:54 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions |
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:40:52 -0800 Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> When expanding the stack, we don't currently check if the VMA will cross into > an area of the address space that is reserved for hugetlb pages. Subsequent > faults on the expanded portion of such a VMA will confuse the low-level MMU > code, resulting in an OOPS. Check for this.
We prefer not to oops. Is there any reason why this isn't a serious fix, needed in 2.6.20 and 2.6.19? - 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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