linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Don't mlock guardpage if the stack is growing up

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Date:	Mon, 9 May 2011 15:58:02 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't mlock guardpage if the stack is growing up

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...il.com> wrote:
>
> P.S. while we could start both stacks on the same page and have the grow
> away from the start point, ia64 actually starts them out a fair distance apart
> and lets them run into each other (if you have enough memory to let them
> grow that far, and if ulimit -s doesn't stop them earlier)

Ahh, so you never actually have one single mapping that has both flags set?

In that case, I won't even worry about it.

One thing I did want to verify: did the mlockall() actually change the
stack size without that patch? Just to double-check that the patch
actually did change semantics visibly.

                 Linus
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