Re: heap-stack-gap for 2.6

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 08:12:30 EST


On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > I didn't check the topdown model, in theory it should be extended to
> > cover that too, this is only working for the legacy model right now
> > because those apps aren't going to use topdown anyways.
>
> which "those apps" ?

those apps that wants to allocate as close as possible to the stack.
They're already using /proc/self/mapped_base, the gap of topdown isn't
configurable.

Also topdown may screwup some MAP_FIXED usage below the 1G mark, no?
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