Re: heap-stack-gap for 2.6

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 14:47:00 EST


On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:09:19PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > 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.

/proc/self/mmaped_base doesn't exist...


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

no

map_fixed is map_fixed... if you give a hint the kernel will try that of
course.

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