Re: Bug in vmalloc?

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:28:19 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Neil Booth wrote:

>But, the vm_struct has it's size member variable set to the original
>size plus PAGE_SIZE in the get_vm_area routine:-

This is done to leave a PAGE_SIZE _virtual_ hole between two sequential
vmalloc allocation to catch virtual accesses out of bound.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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