Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:35:35 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: mauriciolin@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
       edjard@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User space out of memory approach
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
>
> And they had not necessairly hardware access. They "might" have hardware
> access.

On x86 we could perhaps test for non-nullness of tsk->thread->io_bitmap_ptr?

> I thought I could wait the other patches
> to be merged to avoid confusion before making more changes (since it'd
> be a pretty self contained feature), but I can do that now if you
> prefer.

I'll send your current stuff off to Linus in the next few days - we can let
that sit for a while, use that as a base for further work.

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