Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:07:56 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2] procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:23:14 +0200 Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> wrote:
> The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is > splitted into multiple mappings. > > Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases: > 1. vma matches exactly the heap > 2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss > 3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages > > Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
Why do you believe this problem is serious enough to justify backporting the fix into -stable?
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