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SubjectRe: UML fails to locate address space
2008/5/20 Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:43:17PM +0100, Tom Spink wrote:
>> I suspected this type of foul-play, and tried altering bottom to 1,
>> but this didn't work. So, I took out the page_ok test, and it
>> continued booting. So I went back, put the test back in and
>> incremented bottom until I got to 16. It worked at 16. :-)
>
> Heh, I guess they were also worried about up to 64K offsets off a NULL
> pointer too.

<g>

>
>> Is this something that can be fixed, or would a config option be
>> appropriate?
>
> This was done in order to remove config options. It might be
> reasonable to effectively do what you did, and search for the lowest
> address at which mmap works and start from there.

Cool, and nice work BTW. I just for-looped up the way, from 0.

>
>> I am willing to blame Ubuntu, but unfortunately, I can't find an
>> online resource of their patches.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelGitGuide lists a bunch of git repos.
> Tell me which one applies to you and I'll take a look.
>

I'm a hardy. I bet it's 893f802872c3.

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-hardy.git;a=commitdiff;h=893f802872c3e3c6e4bb40c3be4845784b81b934

> Jeff

--
Tom Spink


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