Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265805AbUI0NJn (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:09:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265795AbUI0NJn (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:09:43 -0400 Received: from mail-relay-1.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.41]:33998 "EHLO mail-relay-1.tiscali.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265805AbUI0NJk (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:09:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:09:19 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: heap-stack-gap for 2.6 Message-ID: <20040927130919.GE28865@dualathlon.random> References: <20040925162252.GN3309@dualathlon.random> <1096272553.6572.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1096272553.6572.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 18 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/