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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] report user-readable fixmap area in /proc/PID/maps
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:17:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031012181757.6272eaf5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310070854.h978sTsY003001@magilla.sf.frob.com>

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This patch makes /proc/PID/maps report the range from FIXADDR_USER_START to
>  FIXADDR_USER_END as a final pseudo-vma.

This special-casing, and the special-casing in get_user_pages() would go
away if each process had a real VMA for the fixmap area inserted into its
VMA tree.

Remind me again why we cannot do that?

  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-13  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-07  8:54 Roland McGrath
2003-10-13  1:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-13  1:35   ` Roland McGrath
2003-10-13  1:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-13  2:08       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-10-13  2:17       ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-26  6:49 David Mosberger

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