Re: FIXMAP-related change to mm/memory.c

From: Anton Blanchard (anton@samba.org)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 01:51:02 EST


> > static struct vm_area_struct fixmap_vma = {
> > /* Catch users - if there are any valid
> > ones, we can make this be "&init_mm" or
> > something. */
> > .vm_mm = NULL,
> > - .vm_start = FIXADDR_START,
> > - .vm_end = FIXADDR_TOP,
> > + .vm_start = FIXADDR_USER_START,
> > + .vm_end = FIXADDR_USER_END,
> > .vm_page_prot = PAGE_READONLY,
> > .vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_EXEC,
> > };
>
> Note that the current version of this code does not compile for User Mode
> Linux. Its FIXADDR_TOP is not a constant. It would be nice to fix that
> this time around.
>
> It appears that this patch will break x86_64, parisc and um.

Its a problem on ppc64 too. I want to put the signal trampolines into
a fixmap area above the stack, ie different places on 32bit and 64bit
executables.

Anton
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