On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Ken Chen wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Less trivial (and I wonder whether you've come to this from an ia64
> > or a powerpc direction): I notice that ia64 has more stringent REGION
> > checks in its ia64_do_page_fault, before calling expand_stack or
> > expand_upwards. So on that path, the usual path, I think your
> > new check in acct_stack_growth is unnecessary on ia64;
>
> I think you are correct. This appears to affect powerpc only. On ia64,
> hugetlb lives in a completely different region and they can never step
> into normal stack address space. And for x86, there isn't a thing called
> "reserved address space" for hugetlb mapping.
Thanks, that's reassuring for the hugetlb case, and therefore Adam's
patch should not be delayed. But it does leave open the question I
was raising in the text you've snipped: if ia64 needs those stringent
REGION checks in its ia64_do_page_fault path, don't we need to add
them some(messy)how in the get_user_pages find_extend_vma path?
Hugh
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