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From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@axxeo.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:39:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502120139.01964.ioe-lkml@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0502091512430.2108@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>

Hi,

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:10:18PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It's asking for a lot of unwritable zeroed space.  See this:
> >>   LOAD           0x000000 0x08048000 0x08048000 0xb7354 0x1b7354 R E
> >> 0x1000 LOAD           0x0b7354 0x08200354 0x08200354 0x1e3e4 0x1f648 RW 
> >> 0x1000
> >
> > clear_user's probably not the right way to provide the extra zeroing.
>
> Indeed, clear_user() refuses to zero data when it's not writable
> to the user process ...

So if the application wants an read only range of zeroed pages, why
not just map the ZERO_PAGE() multiple times there?

I can imagine _valid_ uses for that (templates for zero intitialized data),
although there are _better_ ways to do that.


Regards

Ingo Oeser


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-12  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-07 22:11 Pavel Machek
2005-02-07 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08  0:03   ` Daniel Drake
2005-02-08  0:18     ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08  0:56       ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-02-08  4:06         ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08 17:13           ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-08  8:15       ` Daniel Drake
2005-02-08 17:27   ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-08 17:51   ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-08 19:16     ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-02-09  2:10       ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-09 11:11         ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-09 15:34         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-02-09 20:13           ` Rik van Riel
2005-02-12  0:39             ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2005-02-08 20:43     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-02-08 22:27       ` Pavel Machek

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