On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:59:13 +0000 David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For example, replacing TASK_SIZE in fs/namei.c with "thread->addr_limit" > > > would actually clean up the code: it would mean that the games with > > > "get_fs()" etc would just go away, to be replaced with something like > > > > I think that looks nice too. > > > > Would you be against a "mm->addr_limit"? That's what an approach > > by Paulus implemented, and I was in the camp supporting that kind > > of direction. > > On the other hand, this value is constant on some archs, and in those cases, > wouldn't it be better for it to be a compile-time constant? How can it be constant? It would need to change when a set_fs(KERNEL_DS) is performed.
