From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266528AbUBLSZv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:25:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266522AbUBLSZu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:25:50 -0500 Received: from cs24243203-239.austin.rr.com ([24.243.203.239]:44044 "EHLO raptor.int.mccr.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266528AbUBLSZu (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:25:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:25:45 -0600 From: Dave McCracken To: Linus Torvalds cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] get_unmapped_area() change -> non booting machine Message-ID: <387610000.1076610345@[10.1.1.5]> In-Reply-To: References: <1076384799.893.5.camel@gaston> <20040210173738.GA9894@mail.shareable.org> <20040213002358.1dd5c93a.ak@suse.de> <20040212100446.GA2862@elte.hu> <339500000.1076605352@[10.1.1.5]> <362010000.1076607103@[10.1.1.5]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --On Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:19:21 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Well, the _common_ case at least for the loader is that the "top of the > hole" is actually the stack. So the above would _really_ suck, and crash > pretty much immediately ;) Hmm, good point. My mental image of the address space tagged the section at TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE as already allocated. Dave McCracken