On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 22:46 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Bad things can happen if a 32-bit process is the last user of a 64-bit > > mm. TASK_SIZE isn't a constant, and we can end up clearing page tables > > only up to the 32-bit TASK_SIZE instead of all the way. We should > > probably double-check every instance of TASK_SIZE or USER_PTRS_PER_PGD > > for this kind of problem. > > Or better get rid of TASK_SIZE completely. Having something that looks > like a constant change depending on the user process is a bad idea.
Yeah, that's possibly a sane plan. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
