Re: [PATCH 0/2] blackfin: ptrace mm/sram_list fixes

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/27, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> > BTW. Obviously sys_sram_alloc() can create multiple sram_list_struct
> > nodes with the same ->addr (with or without this patch), I hope this
> > is fine.
>
> how so ?

OOPS. Of course it can't, I was wrong.

> Blackfin is a nommu arch, so there should be no aliasing
> issues.  each of the individual L1 sub-allocators manage a different
> address range, and none of those should return an address that is
> already in use.

Yes, I greatly misunderstood this code, to the point I didn't notice
where this "addr" actually comes from.

Thanks for your explanation,

Oleg.

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