From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: breakage: flex mmap patch for x86-64
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 10:50:27 +0100
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On Saturday 06 of November 2004 10:12, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  static inline int mmap_is_legacy(void)
> >  {
> > +       if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32))
> > +               return 1;
> 
> That's definitely not the right fix because for 32bit you need flexmmap
> more than for 64bit because it gives you more address space.

So let's call it temporary, but I like 32-bit apps having less address space 
rather than segfaulting.

Greets,
RJW

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