Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:51:12 -0500
From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Florian Heinz <heinz@cronon-ag.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a.out issue
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 07:27:27PM -0800, Chris Wright took 39 lines to write:
> * Florian Heinz (heinz@cronon-ag.de) wrote:
> > seems like find_vma_prepare does not what insert_vm_struct expects when
> > the whole addresspace is occupied.
> 
> The setup_arg_pages() is inserting an overlapping region.  If nothing
> else, this will fix that problem.   Perhaps there's a better solution.

It solves the oops here (I didn't get the oops at first because I didn't
have CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT set). Sort of. Now I just get "Killed" with
vm.overcommit_memory set to 1; with it set to 0 I get a seg fault.

Kurt
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