From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent NULL mmap in topdown model From: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:38:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1116448683.6572.43.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 15:57 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > This (trivial) patch prevents the topdown allocator from allocating > mmap areas all the way down to address zero. It's not the prettiest > patch, so suggestions for improvement are welcome ;) it looks like you stop at brk() time.. isn't it better to just stop just above NULL instead?? Gives you more space and is less of an artificial barrier.. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org