Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:51:52 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: fix iounmap and a pageattr memleak (x86 and x86-64) |
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:48:27AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:39:15AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:15:54AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > the fix for this bug in 2.6.11-rc3 for this bug is wrong, I thought I > > > > Can you describe what exactly is wrong? > > the wrong thing is that if I change the size of the guard page in > vmalloc.c, the arch code will break. the guard page is a debugging knob, > people may want to remove it someday to save virtual address space, and > they shouldn't be required to look after N architectures.
Ok, so it is merely a cosmetic issue.
I was worried about an actual bug :)
No problem with changing it, but hopefully after 2.6.11.
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