Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756277AbXFKWJk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754477AbXFKWJe (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:34 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.244]:56596 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754449AbXFKWJd (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NdWFtT4GHyV2z5N5p8iCV2mn5qD339tXHImcf3w2RQLQaHUmQdJPCxnZNEcz7ZNr76W4nISW8T6r5a3kFJskuPyj1AykngbIMABYjuL9Onmyz23loqJ//KQQVMa6rqw06SXgAGLYrxwU4FPMYczsU5LfRNm8LWjA1UOml4GMqhs= Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0706111509s161c6287pdce612946194d87@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:32 -0400 From: "Mike Frysinger" To: "Matt Mackall" Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap Cc: "Bernd Schmidt" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "David Howells" , "Wu, Bryan" In-Reply-To: <20070609191010.GB11166@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46695F6D.5050600@t-online.de> <20070609191010.GB11166@waste.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 18 On 6/9/07, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:53:49PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > > 2. It is no longer possible to get blocks smaller than a page through > > mmap. This behaviour was used by simplemalloc, which is an insane > > way of implementing malloc on nommu systems and hopefully not used > > by anyone anymore. > > That's worrisome. Breaking existing apps/libraries seems like a bad > idea. it isnt breaking anything ... simplemalloc() will continue to execute in newer kernels -mike - 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/