From: Neil Booth <NeilB@earthling.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: PATCH - bug in vfree
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:14:36 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36CEA72C.7B86B221@earthling.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36CEA095.D5EA37B5@earthling.net>
Neil Booth wrote:
> More deeply:- Close inspection of get_vm_area reveals that
> (intentionally?) it does NOT insist there be a cushion page behind a VMA
> that is placed in front of a previously-allocated VMA, it ONLY
> guarantees that a cushion page lies in front of newly-allocated VMAs.
Sorry, this is not correct (mistook < for <=). The bug report is
correct, though.
Neil.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-20 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-20 11:46 Neil Booth
1999-02-20 12:14 ` Neil Booth [this message]
1999-02-27 2:39 ` Neil Booth
1999-02-22 20:31 ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-02-25 0:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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