Re: [2/3] mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That said, it does strike me as rather odd to do VM ops on partial
> stacks. What are you doing, exactly, to hit this?

The reason I ask is that the _sane_ thing to do - if we really care
about this - is to change the 'vm_next' singly-linked list into using
'list.h'. It would clean up a fair amount of stuff, like removing the
need for that disgusting 'find_vma_prev()' thing. There are actually
several users of vma's that want to look at the previous vma, but
because it's hard to get at, they do something non-intuitive or odd.

At the same time, we've had that vm_next pointer since pretty much day
one, and I also get a strong feeling that it's not really worth the
churn.

                         Linus
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