From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265999AbUBJTRP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:17:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266030AbUBJTRP (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:17:15 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:21954 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265999AbUBJTRM (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:17:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:23:58 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Jamie Lokier Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [BUG] get_unmapped_area() change -> non booting machine Message-Id: <20040213002358.1dd5c93a.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040210173738.GA9894@mail.shareable.org> References: <1076384799.893.5.camel@gaston> <20040210173738.GA9894@mail.shareable.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:37:38 +0000 Jamie Lokier wrote: > The real question is - why does malloc() break? I'd expect malloc() > to use MAP_ANON these days, when brk() fails. But it seems not. Yep, that's the real bug. -Andi