Hi Jörn :)
* Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> dixit:
> > There is a change in archs where TASK_SIZE is the entire
> > addressable space (like sparc64). Ask Dave S., again. The problem did
> > arise when TASK_SIZE is ~0. Then semantics change.
> True. PAGE_ALIGN(-1) = 0 and that case would not get caught with the
> old code. Looks good to me.
This was pointed to me by Dave. I prepared a patch time ago just
for the case where 'len' was quite large, but I assumed that
TASK_SIZE was at least one less page than the entire addressable
space, which is not true. My fault O:))
Thanks for pointing, anyway.
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Good one ;))))
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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