Re: question on memory map of process on i386

[Christopher Friesen]

Keith Owens wrote:

> The gate page is a section of code that is generated as part of the
> kernel build.  At run time, the gate page is mapped into all the user
> space processes.  There is also a virtual dynamic .so (vdso) file that
> is created by the kernel and picked up by the linker, the vdso maps the
> kernel entries in the gate page.  Run this command and look for "gate".

Okay, I suspected it might be something like this.

Why does find_vma() fail for that page though?  This confuses some code 
that I wrote.  Do I have to teach my stuff about get_gate_vma() and 
in_gate_area()?

Chris
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