Re: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH 4/4] nommu - backward compatibility patch for mm/nommu.c

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>]

David Howells wrote:
> Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> wrote:
>
>
> > -		    (*parent)->vma->vm_end == end)
> > +		    (!len || (*parent)->vma->vm_end == end))
>
>
> Please make this configurable. It's bypassing an error case check.

I disagree, I don't think it warrents yet another configuration option.

Most uClinux archiectures don't want to do this size error check - at
least any that rely on the current implementation of light weight uClibc
mmap() based malloc(). And up until recently this was _every_ uClinux
architecture.

Regards
Greg


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