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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent NULL mmap in topdown model
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 01:23:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050519082345.GI23013@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116490511.6027.25.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

* Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org) wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 23:46 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> > I gave it a quick and simple test.  Worked as expected.  Last page got
> > mapped at 0x1000, leaving first page unmapped.  Of course, either with
> > MAP_FIXED or w/out MAP_FIXED but proper hint (like -1) you can still
> > map first page.  This isn't to say I was extra creative in testing.
> 
> sure. Making it *impossible* to mmap that page is bad. People should be
> able to do that if they really want to, just doing it if they don't ask
> for it is bad.

Heh, that was actually my intended point ;-)  At any rate, you made it
clearer, thanks.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-18 19:57 Rik van Riel
2005-05-18 20:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-18 21:16   ` Rik van Riel
2005-05-18 22:41     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-18 22:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-19  2:25   ` Rik van Riel
2005-05-19  2:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-19  6:46       ` Chris Wright
2005-05-19  8:15         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-19  8:23           ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-05-29 21:16           ` Greg Stark
2005-05-31 16:56             ` Chris Wright

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