From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: uClinux development list <uclinux-dev@uclinux.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] bug in order>0 page allocations with !CONFIG_MMU
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:11:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23098.1099656699@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <418B0C82.6060107@snapgear.com>
> > Why is doing this necessary at all? No one should be touching the
> > individual pages of a block allocation. The kernel should defend itself
> > against userspace trying to munmap part of a multipage mmap.
>
> I don't recall right now why we had to do this originally.
> It was absolutely neccessary once, but I don't think we need
> this anymore. At least it runs fine on m68knommu targets now
> without this.
I've just found out what it's necessary for. access_process_vm() as called
from, say, /proc/cmdline.
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-05 12:11 UTC|newest]
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2004-11-04 14:28 David Howells
2004-11-05 5:15 ` [uClinux-dev] " Greg Ungerer
2004-11-05 12:11 ` David Howells [this message]
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