Re: [PATCH] doc: missing value 2 for randomize-va-space

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 03 2009 - 06:24:47 EST



* Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> [ added Ingo to CC ]
>
> On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Horst Schirmeier wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > > > There a few legacy applications out there (such as some ancient
> > >
> > > ... would you please fix this typo/grammo as well? (There a few ...)
> > >
> > > > versions of libc.so.5 from 1996) that assume that brk area starts
> > >
> > > Also, the text itself doesn't seem to be super-clear ... namely, it
> > > describes what CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is about, but doesn't really clarify how
> > > exactly does this correlate with randomize_va_space == 2. Would you mind
> > > also fixing this bit?
> >
> > I hope I didn't misread the sources :-) Opinions?
> >
> > ---
> >
> > The documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* does not mention the possible
> > value 2 for randomize-va-space yet. While being there, doing some
> > reformatting, fixing grammar problems and clarifying the correlations
> > between randomize-va-space, kernel parameter "norandmaps" and the
> > CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK option.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
>
> Ingo, will you take this through your tree?
>
> >
> > ---
> > Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 30 +++++++++++++++++-------------
> > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

This could go to your or Randy's docs tree, right? (would be fine by
me)

Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/