From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755769Ab0HXUc5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:32:57 -0400 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:42268 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755328Ab0HXUcx (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:32:53 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] guard page for stacks that grow upwards From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Luck, Tony" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, John David Anglin , Kyle McMartin In-Reply-To: References: <4c7413025613b269c@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:32:48 +0000 Message-ID: <1282681968.2993.109.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.1.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 13:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Luck, Tony wrote: > > > > Built, booted & tested on ia64 > > Built for x86_64 (but not booted or tested) > > pa-risc - untested > > Ok, applied. I do think we could do the "VM_GROWSDOWN = 0" trick for > PA-RISC (so that the code for the growsdown case would be compiled > away there), but that definitely needs somebody who actually cares > specifically about PA-RISC. I can try it ... I was just getting ready to try the -rc2 kernel on our cupertino test ring anyway. James