Re: [PATCH] doc: missing value 2 for randomize-va-space

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Jul 03 2009 - 06:26:42 EST


On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > > > > There a few legacy applications out there (such as some ancient
> > > >
> > > > ... would you please fix this typo/grammo as well? (There a few ...)
> > > >
> > > > > versions of libc.so.5 from 1996) that assume that brk area starts
> > > >
> > > > Also, the text itself doesn't seem to be super-clear ... namely, it
> > > > describes what CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is about, but doesn't really clarify how
> > > > exactly does this correlate with randomize_va_space == 2. Would you mind
> > > > also fixing this bit?
> > >
> > > I hope I didn't misread the sources :-) Opinions?
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > The documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* does not mention the possible
> > > value 2 for randomize-va-space yet. While being there, doing some
> > > reformatting, fixing grammar problems and clarifying the correlations
> > > between randomize-va-space, kernel parameter "norandmaps" and the
> > > CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK option.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Ingo, will you take this through your tree?
> >
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 30 +++++++++++++++++-------------
> > > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> This could go to your or Randy's docs tree, right? (would be fine by
> me)

Sure, I basically just wanted your ACK, as you were the last one touching
the respective code.

I will queue it, thanks.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/