[RFC, PATCHv1 28/28] TESTING-ONLY: bump TASK_SIZE_MAX

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Dec 08 2016 - 11:23:43 EST


This is useful for now to play with.

We would need to imlement proper opt-in with prctl()/personality()/ELF
flag.
---
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 63def9537a2d..ab44cbe853cb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -755,7 +755,8 @@ extern unsigned long thread_saved_pc(struct task_struct *tsk);
* particular problem by preventing anything from being mapped
* at the maximum canonical address.
*/
-#define TASK_SIZE_MAX ((1UL << 47) - PAGE_SIZE)
+/* TODO: use >47bit only if requested */
+#define TASK_SIZE_MAX ((1UL << __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT) - PAGE_SIZE)

/* This decides where the kernel will search for a free chunk of vm
* space during mmap's.
--
2.10.2