From: Martin Schwidefsky In order to change the layout of the page tables after an mmap has crossed the adress space limit of the current page table layout a architecture hook in get_unmapped_area is needed. The arguments are the address of the new mapping and the length of it. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- mm/mmap.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/mmap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mmap.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/mmap.c @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ #define arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags) (0) #endif +#ifndef arch_rebalance_pgtables +#define arch_rebalance_pgtables(addr, len) (addr) +#endif + static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *prev, unsigned long start, unsigned long end); @@ -1436,7 +1440,7 @@ get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, uns if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK) return -EINVAL; - return addr; + return arch_rebalance_pgtables(addr, len); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_unmapped_area); -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/