linux-kernel - Re: Resend: /proc/<pid>/maps offset output broken in 2.6.29

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Date:	Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:51:27 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>
cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	peterz@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Resend: /proc/<pid>/maps offset output broken in 2.6.29

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> > This is a cosmetic matter, not worth more than a couple of lines of
> > code: I suggested masking off the high bits in the display, but when
> > KAMEZAWA-san suggested just showing 0, it was hard to argue against
> > his brutal simplicity.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Consider this change a fix: it used to show 00000000 before 2.6.7.
> > 
> > See http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/331 for one of the threads
> > on the subject - but you've not tempted me to reopen it!
> 
> Okay, fair enough.  I'll change my code to deal with it.  Thanks for the
> explanation.

Oh, I thought you were arguing hypotheticals.  This is more serious,
that you have some userspace code which depended on the 2.6.8-2.6.29
way of filling that field, and now we're about to break it.

Please, would you share what you were doing with the vm_pgoff of an
anonymous area?  I won't pretend: I am indeed hoping to show that
what you were doing before was already broken, so that we can safely
go ahead and break it some more!

Hugh
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