On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:02:44PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Not sure yet. There's only one user in nommu.c that shouldn't just be
> > changed to ksize() that I can see, and that's the one in
> > show_process_blocks(). That could test for VM_MAPPED_COPY and keep its
> > hands off otherwise.
>
> Hmmm... You're right. However, note binfmt_elf_fdpic(). This calls ksize()
> but should really call kobjsize(). It should not assume that the allocation
> it's been given is of any particular type.
I presume you mean load_elf_fdpic_binary, which is doing:
fullsize = ksize((char *) current->mm->start_brk);
That's a little troubling.
> IIRC ksize() changed purpose at some point.
Uh, nope. ksize doesn't even exist in 2.4 and has always done the same
thing in 2.6.
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