Re: breakage: flex mmap patch for x86-64

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:50:27AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 06 of November 2004 10:12, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >  static inline int mmap_is_legacy(void)
> > >  {
> > > +       if (test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32))
> > > +               return 1;
> > 
> > That's definitely not the right fix because for 32bit you need flexmmap
> > more than for 64bit because it gives you more address space.
> 
> So let's call it temporary, but I like 32-bit apps having less address space 
> rather than segfaulting.

If you want a temporary fix use the appended one.  But I think Linus pulled it anyways.

-Andi


diff -u linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c-o linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c
--- linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c-o	2004-11-05 11:42:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.10rc1-mm3/kernel/sysctl.c	2004-11-06 13:50:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef HAVE_ARCH_PICK_MMAP_LAYOUT
-int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
+int sysctl_legacy_va_layout = 1;
 #endif
 
 /* /proc declarations: */